The periodic reviews by the DMC are based on their mandate in accordance with FDA agreement on protocol-defined study oversight.
The Montreal Protocol is the international agreement designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out production of Cfc's and halons.
Consider the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement between 181 countries designed to reduce the emissions of gases that cause global warming.
In 2002 Germany joined other European nations in ratifying the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement requiring the EU to reduce carbon dioxide emissions 8% by 2012.
The agreement, the Cartagena Protocol, is part of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
We sincerely hope that such a mechanism will be included in the successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol.
The United Nations and Syria reached agreement Thursday on a protocol for the advance monitoring team and other observers.
Syria and the United Nations reached agreement Thursday on a protocol for the advance monitoring team and other observers.
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While the United States did not sign Kyoto, 825 U.S. cities and towns signed up to a climate protection agreement that embraced that protocol's goals.
Next month's climate talks aim to strike a deal on a successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 pact that has legally binding targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The December summit in Denmark is intended to secure a new international agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.
This year the focus will be on the details of a new global climate agreement for when the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.
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Under the agreement, Telekom will use Microsoft Internet Protocol Television software to deliver TV on the network.
And yet, the results of the Non-Aggression Pact and its secret protocol live on while the Nazi-Soviet Trade Agreement holds lessons to this day.
In fact, there is already one international agreement regulating mercury, the United Nations Protocol on Heavy Metals, which entered into force in December 2003.
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Next year in Copenhagen, world leaders will assemble and attempt to write the successor agreement to the 10-year-old Kyoto protocol.
He says he is committed to ratifying the Kyoto Protocol - and played a key part in drawing up the agreement in 1997.
But Sunday's agreement failed to commit all G8 nations to ratifying the protocol ahead of a 2002 summit on environmental problems.
And so the U.S. officials that we spoke with stress that that is why this interim deal - or protocol, as they're calling it - it's not a formal agreement, because, again, this is a changing environment.
Conference was intended to produce a framework agreement for climate change mitigation beyond 2012, as a successor to the Kyoto Protocol.
And yet--if only to insure against catastrophic global climate change that could irreversibly damage the world's human, natural and physical capital--an effective global agreement on mitigation must be achieved and put into force by the time the Kyoto Protocol's implementation period ends in 2012.
The ministers, meeting in Trieste, Italy, unanimously expressed "concern about the seriousness" of the phenomenon, and said they would "strive to reach agreement" in July in Bonn at the next set of talks on the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty on measures to counter climate change.
Within the implementation of the Framework Agreement on the Sava River Basin (FASRB), the Sava countries drafted the Protocol on Sediment Management to the FASRB, to provide a legal basis for future cooperation of the countries on the development of the Sediment Management Plan for the Sava River Basin (Sava SM Plan).
The announcement follows the release of a report last month by Dutch and American scientists arguing that the voluntary Montreal agreement has been more successful in combating climate change than has the market-based Kyoto protocol.
The Protocol is a win-win outcome for the environment and economics: it is a multilateral environmental agreement that provides solutions to economics, and it is also an economic treaty that provides necessary protection for the environment.
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Under the agreement the EU will place its current emission-cutting pledges inside the legally-binding Kyoto Protocol, a key demand of developing countries.
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