| [Visitor (112.21.*.*)]answers [Chinese ] | Time :2022-03-27 |  The Treaty was adopted in Kyoto, Japan in December 1997 and opened for signature between March 16, 1998 and March 15, 1999, signed by 84 countries, the Treaty entered into force on February 16, 2005, and by February 2009, a total of 183 countries had adopted the Treaty (more than 61% of global emissions), and it is worth noting that the United States signed but did not approve it, and then first withdrew from the Kyoto Protocol.
The Treaty provides that it enters into force "on the 90th day after not less than 55 participating States sign the Treaty and the greenhouse gas emissions reach 55 per cent of the total emissions of the Annexes in 1990", of which "55 States" were achieved first after the adoption of Iceland on 23 May 2002 and "55 per cent" after the adoption of the Treaty by Russia on 18 December 2004, and the Treaty became mandatory on 16 February 2005 90 days later.
The United States accounts for only 3 to 4 percent of the world's population, while emitting more than 25 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions, making it the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases. The United States signed the Kyoto Protocol in 1998. However, in March 2001, the Bush administration announced its refusal to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on the pretext that "reducing greenhouse gas emissions will affect the economic development of the United States" and "developing countries should also bear the obligation to reduce and limit greenhouse gas emissions." |
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