Question

Kyoto-protocol was endorsed at
A. CoP-4
B. CoP-5
C. CoP-6
D. CoP-3

Answer 1

Hint: The Conference of Parties, COP, is the decision-making body that is responsible for monitoring and reviewing the implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC ).

Complete answer:
The Kyoto Protocol was agreed upon the third session of the Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC (COP 3) in 1997 in Kyoto, Japan.

Additional information:
- The Kyoto Protocol is an international treaty, which adds onto the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), 1992.
- The Kyoto protocol was the first agreement between nations that mandated country-by-country reductions of greenhouse-gas emissions.
- The protocol encourages State Parties to decrease greenhouse gases emissions, based on the fact that global warming exists and man-made carbon dioxide emissions have caused it.
- It is called the Kyoto Protocol because it was adopted at a conference in Kyoto, Japan.
- Though the Kyoto Protocol was adopted in Kyoto, Japan, on 11 December 1997, it was officially put into "full force" until February 16, 2005.

Hence the correct answer is 'COP-3'.

Note: Under Kyoto, member nations pledged to cut their annual emissions of carbon, as measured in six greenhouse gases, by differing amounts, averaging 5.2%, by 2012 as compared to 1990. That equivalent to a 29% cut in the values that would have otherwise occurred.