Kyoto Conference on Global Warming Prevention
(December 1997)
December 1997, Kyoto, Japan - The United Nations Climate Change Conferences (COP3) gets underway in Kyoto, western Japan. At the COP 3, developing countries agreed to specific targets for cutting their emission of greenhouse gases while industriallized countries agreed to commit to an overall reeuction of emission to 5.2% below 1990 levels for the period 2008-2012. (Photo by Natsuki Sakai/AFLO) AYF -mis-