The Kyoto Protocol on climate change was adopted on December 11th, 1997 to combat global warming and reduce greenhouse gases. The protocol which extends the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that committed 36 countries who signed on. The protocol puts an obligation to reduce current emission of developed countries on the basis that they are historically responsible for the current levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
The Kyoto Protocol was designed to set an international binding agreement to reduce emissions forcing industrialized nations to agree to cut their greenhouse gas emission to a certain percentage. The current greenhouse-gas emission targets for limiting global warming is 2°C. All 36 of the countries that committed to the Kyoto Protocol on climate change have complied with their emission targets. This is great news for our future. However the US never ratified the treaty and Canada withdrew.