Montreal Protocol
- Signed in 1987
- Phases out damaging compounds such as CFCs.
- It outlines states' responsibilities to protect citizens' health.
Kyoto Protocol
- According to the United Nations website, "The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The major feature of the Kyoto Protocol is that it sets binding targets for 37 industrialized countries and the European community for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions .These amount to an average of five per cent against 1990 levels over the five-year period 2008-2012."
- The Kyoto Protocol was accepted in 1997.
- Nations have unique reduction goals to meet based on industrial factors.
- In 2004, Russia ratified the protocol, making it internationally binding.
- The United States, the world's biggest polluter (4% of the population with 25% of the emissions), still has not accepted the treaty. George W. Bush has said that it would threaten the U.S. economy.
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