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The Index of Dependency plots the growth of federal programs thatsubstitute for similar initiatives at lower levels of governmentand civil society. It increased during the 60s and 70s due tothe federal government's proliferation, and also since 1980 becauseof administrations' reluctance to reduce the federal government'ssize.
In December 1997, the Clinton Administration agreed to the terms of the Kyoto Protocol, a global climate agreement negotiated by more that 160 countries in Kyoto, Japan, under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Kyoto Protocol mandates that the United States reduce its greenhouse gas emissions in the 2008 to 2012 period to levels 7 percent below 1990 levels.
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