Start date set for Kyoto treaty
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The Kyoto protocol on climate change will become a legally-binding treaty on 16 February, the UN annnounces.
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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 come into force worldwide, Russian news agencies reported on Monday.
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The State Duma is expected to vote this month on ratifying the Kyoto Protocol, the deputy prime minister said Monday. Approval would bring the international treaty on climate change into effect after years of delay.
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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 come into force  worldwide, Russian news agencies reported on Monday.
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Russia's Duma ratified the Kyoto  Protocol on Friday, clearing the way for the long-delayed  climate change pact to come into force worldwide.
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A group of global lawmakers signed a resolution Thursday urging a new agreement limiting greenhouse gas emissions by 2009 to succeed the Kyoto protocol, which is set to expire in 2012.Comment
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Russia could ratify the Kyoto Protocol  by the end of the year and kick-start global attempts to  control climate change, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov  said on Thursday.
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DAVID HARDAKER: Nearly seven years after it was first proposed, the Kyoto Protocol on climate change has now been given the green light - courtesy of the Russian Government.
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MOSCOW. Oct 5 (Interfax) - Boris Gryzlov, chairman of the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, told journalists on Tuesday that the Duma will be prepared in October to ratify the Kyoto Protocol.
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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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Japan will push for a year after 1990 to be used as the reference point for greenhouse emission cuts in a post-Kyoto deal as chair of the G8 summit in July, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said Saturday.
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MOSCOW, October 4 (Itar-Tass) -- The State Duma will consider the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol in October, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov said.
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MOSCOW -- Key ministries of the Russian government began the process of ratifying the Kyoto Protocol yesterday, signaling that President Vladimir V. Putin is preparing to put the landmark global-warming treaty to a vote in parliament.
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Russia&#39;s lower house of parliament approved the Kyoto Protocol on Friday, virtually guaranteeing that the treaty to fight global warming will take effect early next year.
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Russia's parliament was due to vote on  Friday on ratifying the Kyoto Protocol, the last hurdle before  the long-delayed climate change treaty comes into force  worldwide.
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The Kyoto Protocol has finally been given the green light and will become a binding treaty on February the 16th. The finalisation of the United Nations&#39; environmental accord, which is designed to combat global
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Russia formally ratified the Kyoto  Protocol on global warming on Thursday, clearing the way for  the international environment accord to come into force early  next year.