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Iraq ratifies Kyoto Protocol on climate change
Baghdad (AFP) Jan 26, 2008 Iraq has formally ratified the UN's Kyoto Protocol on climate change, according to a government statement seen by AFP on Saturday. "The presidential council ratified in its session on January 23 a law according to which the Republic of Iraq will join the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol," the statement said. The Kyoto Protocol legally commits industrialised countries which have signed and ratified it to trim their output of six carbon gases seen as being responsible for global warming. Its framework was adopted on December 12, 1997 in Kyoto, Japan, by 159 states that are members of the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. But it took almost four more years of negotiations to complete its rulebook, and then nearly three more years to get the deal ratified. It took effect on February 16, 2005. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Climate Science News - Modeling, Mitigation Adaptation
US pushes its climate change agenda despite criticism
Washington (AFP) Jan 25, 2008The United States pushed forward with its own agenda on climate change Friday despite criticism that Washington is attempting to undermine the global effort led by the United Nations. |
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