MPPSC 2014 General Studies Solved Paper-1

(C) The Kyoto Protocol is an international treaty which extends the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)that commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based on the scientific consensus that global warming is occurring and it is extremely likely that human made $\mathit{C}{\mathit{O}}_2$ emissions have predominantly caused it. The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in Kyoto, Japan on ${11}^{\mathit{t}\mathit{h}}$ December, 1997 and entered into force on ${16}^{\mathit{t}\mathit{h}}$February,2005.