3 Carbon footprint calculations
With an increasing scientific consensus that rising concentrations of greenhouse gases were likely attributable to human activity and that the gases could potentially destabilize the world’s climate system, delegates from nearly two hundred countries gathered in Kyoto for the 1997 United Nations Climate Change Conference. To address these concerns, delegates drafted an international climate change treaty known as the Kyoto Protocol. This treaty extended United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change commitments to reduce atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations to levels that would prevent ...
