Climate Decade in Review - Post 25: EU Countries Ratify Kyoto. 55th Country.

May 30, 2002 - Sixteen EU countries ratify the Kyoto Protocol, pushing it over the 55 required as one condition of going into force. The Protocol contains two conditions:

"on the ninetieth day after the date on which not less than 55 Parties to the Convention, incorporating Parties included in Annex I which accounted in total for at least 55% of the total carbon dioxide emissions for 1990 of the Annex I countries, have deposited their instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession."

With Autria's ratification, the first condition--55 parties--was met. The second condition, 55% of emissions from Annex 1 parties was met later when Russia ratified it on November 18, 2004, bringing it into force 90 days later in February 2005.

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This is one in the series of "Decade in Review" posts on this blog that began in January 2010. These posts present climate-change-related events that occurred during the 00's, the warmest decade in recorded history.