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The Kyoto Protocol

Dec 1997 · kyoto

Kyoto introduced emissions trading as an instrument, since become the main model in the EU and elsewhere. Its weakness — that only some countries took on obligations — is exactly why the Paris agreement twenty years later was built quite differently, with voluntary national targets from every country instead of binding requirements on a few.

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