Larry West is an award-winning environmental journalist and writer. He won the Edward J. Meeman Award for Environmental Reporting. The Kyoto Protocol was an amendment to the United Nations Framework ...

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. "It seems to me that ...

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 ...

The Kyoto Protocol, the world’s only legal agreement to fight global warming, survived Copenhagen but its future remains very much in doubt. The treaty, which binds 37 nations to emissions cuts, is ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: This page has been retired and is no longer being updated. Here’s a look at the Kyoto Protocol, an agreement reached in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997, mandating that industrialized nations cut ...

More than seven years after its inception, the Kyoto Protocol is finally up and running. From Wednesday 16 February, countries throughout the world must make good their promise to cut greenhouse-gas ...

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. Bret Arnett ...

At Lincoln Center Theater, a new play from the makers of “The Jungle” tries to dramatize the negotiations that led to the Kyoto Protocol. By Laura Collins-Hughes A new play from the writers of “The ...

Editor’s Note: This page has been retired and is no longer being updated. Here’s a look at the Kyoto Protocol, an agreement reached in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997, mandating that industrialized nations cut ...