The Kyoto Protocol is an international treaty proposing targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions emissions, which are generally believed to aggravate global warming. It was negotiated in Kyoto Japan
The Kyoto Protocol is a legally binding agreement under which industrialized countries will reduce their collective emissions of greenhouse gases by 5.2% compared to the year 1990 (but note that, compared to the emissions levels that would be expected by 2010 without the Protocol, this target represents a 29% cut.) The goal is to lower overall emissions from six greenhouse gases - carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulphur hexafluoride, HFCs, and PFCs.
Signatories to the Kyoto Protocol are split into two groups:
Annex I countries (industrialised countries) and
Annex II countries (developing countries).
Annex I countries agree to reduce their emissions (particularly carbon dioxide) to levels below their 1990 emissions levels.
: The USA although a signatory to the protocol, has neither ratified nor withdrawn from the protocol
Annex II countries have no immediate restrictions under the protocol.
President George Bush, indicated that he does not intend to submit the treaty for ratification, not because he doesn't support the general idea, but because he is not happy with the details of the treaty. For example, he does not support the split between Annex I and Annex II countries. Bush said of the treaty:
"The world's second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases is China Yet, China was entirely exempted from the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol.
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