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United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change
•1992  - Rio De Janeiro
•Objective – ..stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system….
•Developed countries -1990 levels by 2000
•Developing countries – excused temporarily
To place Kyoto in context we need to step back to 1992. At that time, at the World Earth Summit in Rio, countries set an objective to stabilize greenhouse gases at a level that would prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system.

As an initial step, the developed countries set a goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000.

Source: http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/conveng.pdf