International treaties that set limits on greenhouse gas emissions and so changed energy policy worldwide, namely the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement. A milestone belongs here when its cited article describes such a climate treaty. It excludes the disasters of the same era, which have their own group, and the group records the agreements that turned climate goals into commitments for governments and energy producers.
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Paris Agreement (Wikipedia)
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The Paris Agreement (also called the Paris Accords or Paris Climate Accords) is an international treaty on climate change that was signed in 2016.
Kyoto Protocol (Wikipedia)
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The Kyoto Protocol (Japanese: 京都議定書, Hepburn: Kyōto Giteisho) was an international treaty which extended the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based on the scientific consensus that global warming is occurring and that human-made CO2 emissions are driving it.
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