Kyoto Protocol:
It is an international mechanism agreed in 1997 that arose from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
It gathered in the beginning 55 industrialized nations to face the climatic change and to minimize its impacts. These countries represented in that moment 55% of the emissions of hothouse effect gases.
Till today 129 countries have ratified it reaching 61,6% of the emissions as the barometer of the UNFCCC indicates.
This protocol has as main objective to reduce (for the period 2008-2012, the levels registered in 1990) in 5,2% the emissions of the 6 hothouse gases of human origin as:
carbon dioxide(CO2)
methane (CH4)
nitrous oxide (N2O)
And the three industrial fluorinated gases like:
hydrofluoridecarbons (HFC)
Perfluorinated Carbons (PFC)
sulfur hexaflouride.
This objectives are in a regulatory scheme that gives it obligatory strength.
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