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Revision as of 23:12, 25 August 2021
Environmental risk management - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
The Kyoto Protocol, adopted in 1997, was an extension and implementation of the UNFCCC.
Signatories committed themselves to reduce or limit greenhouse gas emissions in two commitment periods expiring in 2012 and 2020 respectively.
The Kyoto Protocol covered the following six greenhouse gases:
- Carbon dioxide (CO2).
- Methane (CH4)
- Nitrous oxide (N2O)
- Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)
- Perfluorocarbons (PFCs)
- Sulphur hexafluoride (SF6)
See also
- Climate change
- Climate change: testing the resilience of corporates’ creditworthiness to natural catastrophes
- Climate risk
- Green Climate Fund
- Greenhouse gas (GHG)
- Paris Agreement
- Risk management
- United Nations
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
