Larry West is an award-winning environmental journalist and writer.
1997: Negotiators from every country in the world agree on a deal to cut the world's greenhouse gas emissions.
The Kyoto Protocol, the world’s only legal agreement to fight global warming, survived Copenhagen but its future remains very much in doubt.
President Donald Trump wants to pull out of the Paris Agreement.
Amid the tolling of church bells and the joyous shouts of aspiring bureaucrats, the Kyoto Protocol was adopted in December 1997 under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate .
Whether to tweak, bolster or bury the Kyoto Protocol -- the only binding global agreement for curbing greenhouse gases -- has become a red-hot issue as UN negotiators in Bangkok try to lay the .
UN climate talks are going nowhere, as politicians dither or bicker while the pace of warming dangerously speeds up, one of the architects of the Kyoto Protocol told AFP.
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The big emitters of greenhouse gases - China, India, and Brazil - and other developing countries were not bound by Kyoto emission targets, and the USA refused to sign up to the Protocol.
At Lincoln Center Theater, a new play from the makers of “The Jungle” tries to dramatize the negotiations that led to the Kyoto Protocol.