The Kyoto agreement is an agreement that the word made to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas by cutting its dependence of fossil fuels. The Kyoto agreement began in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 when world leaders, worried about predictions of global warming. Negotiators met in Kyoto, Japan, and agreed that annual amount of greenhouse gas in the period 2008 to 2012 should fall to 5.2 per cent which below then 1990 level.
Signed, refused, George W Bush
155 countries have signed the Kyoto agreement such as Germany, UK, Canada and Japan. George W bush refused to sign the Kyoto agreement because of the two reasons. One is that it would harm the United States economy by requiring very costly changes to manufacturing, transportation, and other aspects of business. Another reason is that India and China didn’t singed up the Kyoto Agreement where economic advancement is valued.
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