Germany Takes First Steps to Ratify Kyoto Extension
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Germany has become the first large European Union member state to start ratifying the extension of the emissions-limiting Kyoto Protocol treaty.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Cabinet of ministers supported legislation that will ratify Kyoto’s second commitment period early next year, the German Environment Ministry said today in an e-mailed statement. The commitments extend to 2020 limits on pollution under Kyoto, which was negotiated in 1997 and had a first round of commitments that finished in 2012.