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Signatories agree to meet annually to keep global warming under control and warn of the need to reduce emissions of polluting gases

In the three decades since the Rio Summit created the UNFCC, global climate policy has seen a hodge-podge of accords, mandates and protocols. That has produced another hodge-podge of national aspirations, but little in the way of concerted, co-ordinated efforts to reduce emissions.

The Kyoto Protocol is fundamentally flawed and unfair, and it wouldseriously harm the U.S. economy. Even if it comes fully into force,it will not achieve its goal of reducing greenhouse gases globally.

COP stands for Conference to the Parties to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change, which aims to prevent dangerous global warming.

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