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Societal Responses


To alleviate climate change and, thereby, to avoid the unpredictable disruption of the environment for the planet Earth, the human community is taking actions around the globe. In 1992, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was signed by over 160 countries. A protocol to this Convention, the Kyoto Protocol was agreed to by over 160 countries in 1997. In July 2001, at Bonn, over 180 countries further reached a broad agreement for the implementation of this Protocol.

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