caa a22 4500 388046031 CHVBK 20180307125038.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199804 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0020589300061947 doi S0020589300061947 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0020589300061947 I. Global Warming and the Kyoto Protocol [Elektronische Daten] [Colin Warbrick: editor, Dominic McGoldrick: editor, Peter G. G. Davies] The Third Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Climate Change Convention) was held from 1 to 11 December 1997 at Kyoto, Japan. Significantly the States Parties to the Convention adopted a protocol (Kyoto Protocol) on 11 December 1997 under which industrialised countries have agreed to reduce their collective emissions of six greenhouse gases by at least 5 per cent by 2008-2012. Ambassador Raul Estrada-Oyuela, who had chaired the Committee of the Whole established by the Conference to facilitate the negotiation of a Protocol text, expressed the view that: "This agreement will have a real impact on the problem of greenhouse gas emissions. Today should be remembered as the Day of the Atmosphere.” This note seeks to outline in brief the science of climate change, and international activity to combat global warming prior to the Kyoto conference. It then attempts to analyse the terms of the Kyoto Protocol and to draw some conclusions on its significance. Copyright © British Institute of International and Comparative Law 1998 Warbrick Colin edt McGoldrick Dominic edt Davies Peter G. G. International and Comparative Law Quarterly Cambridge University Press 47/2(1998-04), 446-461 0020-5893 47:2<446 1998 47 ILQ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020589300061947 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020589300061947 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Warbrick Colin edt NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- McGoldrick Dominic edt NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Davies Peter G. G. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International and Comparative Law Quarterly Cambridge University Press 47/2(1998-04), 446-461 0020-5893 47:2<446 1998 47 ILQ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge