Key points in the Kyoto Protocol
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_ The protocol obliges industrialized countries to cut or limit emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by an average 5.2 percent from 1990 levels by 2012.
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The Russian government has approved the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, which sets formal targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, and sent it to the country&#39;s parliament for ratification.
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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 treaty moved within a step of being put into force worldwide yesterday as Russia&#39;s lower house of parliament ratified the international pact to curb global warming.
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United States ought to be leading the parade to curb global warming, not just watching it. After years of delay, Russia appears poised to ratify the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty aimed at limiting
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VIENNA - Industrial nations agreed yesterday to consider stiff goals for cutting greenhouse gases in a step toward a new global climate treaty to extend the Kyoto Protocol to 2020. About 1,000 delegates at a United Nations climate conference set a nonbinding guideline that would cut emissions to between 25 and 40 percent below 1990 levels. Officials from 158 nations ...
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Sept. 30. The RF Government has approved today of ratification of Kyoto protocol, a document setting forth reduction of the world&#39;s greenhouse gas emission by 5.2% over 2008-2012 to the level of the year 1990.
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BUENOS AIRES, December 16 (RIA Novosti&#39;s Yuri Nikolayev) - The mechanisms for compliance with the Kyoto Protocol are not focused on cutting greenhouse gas emissions yet, Alexander Bedritsky, head of the Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and
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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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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&#39;s ratification of the Kyoto Protocol marks a new phase in the international cooperation to deal with the global warming and serves the country&#39;s interests, Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Yakovenko said Thursday.
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Steam and smoke rise from cooling towers on the outskirts of Moscow, Friday, Oct. 22, 2004. Russia&#39;s lower house of parliament ratified the Kyoto Protocol on global warming Friday, moving the sweeping environmental
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Amid fanfare marking the enactment of the Kyoto global warming pact, leading proponents laid out their next goals Wednesday: persuading the United States to join the world crackdown on emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases and planning further steps when the current agreement runs out in 2012.
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MOSCOW  - The Russian cabinet on Thursday approved the Kyoto Protocol in a crucial step that could bring the long-delayed climate change treaty into worldwide effect within months.
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The Federation Council, the upper chamber of the Russian parliament, has ratified the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which was signed by Russia in 1997.
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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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Russia&#39;s upper house of parliament has ratified the Kyoto Protocol, leaving President Vladimir Putin&#39;s signature as the final step to kickstart global efforts to control climate change.