Question

Kyoto Protocol was endorsed at
A) $CoP - 3$
B) $CoP - 5$
C) $CoP - 6$
D) $CoP - 4$

Answer 1

Kyoto Protocol is basically an international treaty which is an extension to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It is an international agreement which was aimed for managing and reducing carbon dioxide emissions and greenhouse gases.

Complete answer:
(1) The Kyoto protocol is an international agreement that aims to manage and reduce carbon to manage and reduce carbon dioxide emissions and greenhouse effect. Kyoto protocol climate change conference held at kyota, japan in $1997.$ It was adopted at the third session of the COnference of Parties to the UNFCCC $(CoP - 3)$.

The target for first commitment period of kyoto protocol cover emissions of six main greenhouse gases (a) carbon dioxide
(b) methane
(c) nitrous oxide
(d) hydrofluorocarbons
(e) perfluorocarbons
(f) sulphur hexafluoride

Countries that ratified the kyoto protocol were assigned maximum carbon emission levels for specific periods and limits. If a country emitted more than its assigned limit, then it would be penalized by receiving a lower emission unit.Developed industrialized countries made a agreement under Kyoto protocol to reduce their annual hydrocarbon emission by an average of $5:2:1$by the year $2012.$

The protocol is of two groups
(A) annex I is for developed nations
(B) annex I is for developing Countries.
A second commitment period was agreed in $2012$known as Doha amendment under the kyoto protocol.

Therefore, the correct answer is option (A) $(CoP - 3)$.

Note: The Kyoto Protocol was a success as between the years 1990 and 2012 reduced carbon dioxide emissions by 12.5% which is way more than the 2012 target of 4.7%. But it is also to be noted that the Kyoto Protocol was not signed by the world’s fastest and largest growing economies like China and the US.