Question

What is the Kyoto Protocol?

Responses

a way of going about doing science on the atmosphere

a way of going about doing science on the atmosphere

a new technology for cars

a new technology for cars

a document that sets out a plan for reducing carbon gases

a document that sets out a plan for reducing carbon gases

a set of laws made in Japan that deals with how cars are made

Answer 1

The Kyoto Protocol is best described as **a document that sets out a plan for reducing carbon gases**. It is an international treaty that commits its parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based on the premise that global warming exists and human-made CO2 emissions have caused it. The protocol was adopted in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997 and came into force in 2005.