Climate change is a problem that affects people all over the world. That is (1) Answer
the United Nations decided to (2) Answer
action to limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In 2002, representatives of many countries met in Kyoto, Japan. Many of them signed a United Nations treaty (3) Answer
the Kyoto Protocol. The Kyoto Protocol set limits (4) Answer
GHG emissions. Its goal was to (5) Answer
emissions by about five percent by 2012. The greenhouse gases that it hoped to reduce were carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, and so on. The treaty set emissions limits only for developed countries (6) Answer
European countries and the United States. They have produced the (7) Answer
GHG emissions in the past. Although some developing countries did not have limits set on their emissions, the treaty also set up ways (8) Answer
them to follow.