Kyoto Protocol

Kyoto Protocol (The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change)

An international environmental treaty that lays out binding obligations to industrialized countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. 190 countries as well as the European Union have agreed to the treaty. The Kyoto Protocol was enforced in 2005 and was the first instance that developed countries accepted their obligation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in accordance with explicit and binding stipulations within the treaty.