Much anticipated Kyoto Protocol to take effect in February
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Russia yesterday handed over its official ratification documents of the Kyoto Protocol to reduce world-wide greenhouse gas emissions to the secretary general of the United Nation, Kofi Annan.
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The Russian government approved the Kyoto Protocol on Thursday, giving decisive support to the long-delayed climate change treaty that should allow it to come into force worldwide.
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The Russian Cabinet will approve ratification of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, the Interfax news agency reported Wednesday.
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to get talks rolling for after 2012, when the Kyoto protocol to cut greenhouse gases runs out. protocol last month, allowing the treaty to take effect in February with a seven-year delay.
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Russia was due to formally hand over its accession papers on the Kyoto protocol to the UN in Nairobi, ensuring the pact for developed countries to combat global warming becomes a full treaty in mid-February, UN sources said.
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The Russian government expects  parliament to ratify the Kyoto Protocol this month in a move  allowing the long-delayed climate change treaty to come into  force worldwide, a senior minister said Monday.
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The Russian government approved the Kyoto Protocol Thursday, giving decisive support to the long-delayed climate change treaty that should allow it to come into force worldwide.
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The Kyoto Protocol, which requires 35 nations to cut their greenhouse gas emissions, takes effect on Wednesday amid worries about its fairness.
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BONN, Feb 11 (IPS) - The coming into force of Kyoto Protocol Feb. 16 may  not be enough to combat global warming but it closes  ''a period of uncertainty'', says Joke  Waller-Hunter, Executive Secretary of the United Nations  Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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Japan will propose the development and introduction of technology to save energy and help control global warming at the 10th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to be held in December in Argentina.
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MOSCOWâAfter years of delay, the Canadian government will soon have to come up with a concrete plan for cutting greenhouse gas emissions following yesterday&#39;s approval of the Kyoto Protocol by Russia&#39;s lower house of parliament.
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Averting the worst impacts of a warming world is the theme of a high-level UK scientific conference starting on 1 February.
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LONDON, Sep 30 (IPS) - Business climate may change more than world   climate when the Kyoto Protocol comes into effect by the  year-end  following ratification by Russia.
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Russia formally ratified the Kyoto  Protocol on global warming on Thursday, clearing the way for  the environment pact to come into force in February 2005.
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Tony Blair is to host a major scientific conference on climate change in February as part of an attempt to create an international consensus on the science involved and so lock the US and the G8 group of industrial nations into action beyond the Kyoto
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LONDON, Sep 29  (IPS) - The Russian move to ratify the Kyoto Protocol is  set to bring a major change to industrial economies across the  developed world.
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The Russian government agreed to sign the Kyoto treaty, meaning the global climate accord probably will enter into force next year, irrespective of opposition from the US, the world&#39;s biggest polluter.