Kyoto Protocol,”Responding to climate change.is one of the internationalcommunity’s attempts at addressing climatechange. It is an amendment to a United Nations treaty onglobal warming. The Protocol is an internationalagreement, adopted in 1997 and in force in 2005,that sets binding targets for industrialized countriesfor the reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases. By 2009
the United States was the only developedcountry that had not signed the protocol.”