Kyoto Protocol
A subsidiary agreement to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change that was signed at COP-3 to the UNFCCC in Kyoto, Japan, December 1997. It specifies emission obligations for the Annex-B countries and defines the three so-called Kyoto mechanisms (or "flexible mechanisms") JI, CDM and emissions trading. It entered into force in 2005.
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It was adopted in Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997 and entered into force on 16 February 2005.
Kyoto Protocol - Reference Manual, UNFCCC, 2008 (https://unfccc.int/resource/docs/publications/08_unfccc_kp_ref_manual.p…).