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Q101 (IAS/1998) Environment & Ecology › Climate Change & Global Initiatives › UNFCCC and Kyoto Answer Verified

World Environment Conference to discuss global warming was held in 1997 in

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The 1997 global conference on climate change was COP3, at which the Kyoto Protocol was adopted in Kyoto, Japan on 11 December 1997 [1]. That third Conference of the Parties produced the Kyoto Protocol — the world’s first treaty committing industrialized countries to quantified greenhouse‑gas emission reductions — and is commonly referred to as the Kyoto conference of 1997 [2]. Consequently, among the options given, Kyoto is the correct location for the 1997 global warming conference where the Kyoto Protocol was agreed.

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  1. [1] Environment, Shankar IAS Acedemy .(ed 10th) > Chapter 24: Climate Change Organizations > 24.2. KYOTO PROTOCOL: COp-3. > p. 324
  2. [2] Environment, Shankar IAS Acedemy .(ed 10th) > Chapter 24: Climate Change Organizations > 1997 > p. 322
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