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Participation in the Kyoto Protocol
as of December 2010 |
The Kyoto Protocol is a protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change aimed at fighting against global warming. The goal of the protocol is to achieve the stabilization of green house gas concentration in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous impact on the climate system. As of September 2011, 191 states have signed and ratified the protocol. The United States of American is the only country that has signed but has not ratified the protocol. There is skepticism that the climate change is happening in a bigger scale than the scale that the human race can change the course and many activities happening under the name of preventing global warming are results of overestimation of the human influence to the nature or, even worse, outcomes of certain economic motivation such as carbon trading.
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