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Known technological options
Refer to technologies that exist in operation or pilot plant stage today. It
does not include any new technologies that will require drastic technological
breakthroughs.
Kyoto Mechanisms
Economic mechanisms based on market principles that Parties to the Kyoto
Protocol can use in an attempt to lessen the potential economic impacts
of greenhouse gas emission-reduction requirements. They include
Joint Implementation (Article 6), the Clean Development
Mechanism (Article 12), and Emissions Trading (Article
17).
Kyoto Protocol
The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change was adopted at the Third Session of the Conference of the
Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change in 1997 in Kyoto, Japan. It contains legally binding commitments, in
addition to those included in the UNFCCC. Countries included in Annex B of the
Protocol (most OECD countries and countries with Economies in transition)
agreed to reduce their anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (carbon
dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and sulphur
hexafluoride) by at least 5% below 1990 levels in the commitment period
2008 to 2012. The Kyoto Protocol has not yet entered into force (November 2000).
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