Kyoto Protocol [Framework Convention on Climate Change]

The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change came into force in 2005 and has been ratified by all 33 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. It applies the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and sets binding targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions for industrialized countries, recognizing them as those primarily responsible for the high levels of emissions currently present in the atmosphere.

Countries

Country	State party since
Antigua and Barbuda	03/11/1998
Argentina	28/09/2001
Bahamas	09/04/1999
Barbados	07/08/2000
Belize	26/09/2003
Bolivia	30/11/1999
Brazil	23/08/2002
Chile	26/08/2002
Colombia	30/11/2001
Costa Rica	09/08/2002
Cuba	30/04/2002
Dominica	25/01/2005
Dominican Republic	12/02/2002
Ecuador	13/01/2000
El Salvador	30/11/1998
Grenada	06/08/2002
Guatemala	05/10/1999
Guyana	05/08/2003
Haiti	06/07/2005
Honduras	19/07/2000
Jamaica	28/06/1999
Mexico	07/09/2000
Nicaragua	18/11/1999
Panama	05/03/1999
Paraguay	27/08/1998
Peru	12/09/2002
Saint Kitts & Nevis	08/04/2008
Saint Lucia	20/08/2003
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	31/12/2004
Suriname	25/09/2006
Trinidad and Tobago	28/01/1999
Uruguay	05/02/2001
Venezuela	18/02/2005

Highlights

Access to information (articles 10.b and 10.e)

Formulate, implement, publish and regularly update national programmes containing measures to mitigate climate change and measures to facilitate adequate adaptation to climate change. All Parties shall facilitate at the national level public awareness of, and public access to information on, climate change.

Knowledge and technology transfer (article 10.c)

All Parties shall cooperate in the promotion of effective modalities for the development, application and diffusion of, and take all practicable steps to promote, facilitate and finance, as appropriate, the transfer of, or access to, environmentally sound technologies, know-how, practices and processes pertinent to climate change, in particular to developing countries, including the formulation of policies and programmes for the effective transfer of environmentally sound technologies that are publicly owned or in the public domain and the creation of an enabling environment for the private sector, to promote and enhance the transfer of, and access to, environmentally sound technologies.