The protocol sets binding greenhouse gas limits on 38 industrialized nations and sets up apparatus such as "emissions trading, " in which a country having trouble meeting its requirements can buy credits from others that exceed them.
It is treating Article 75 of Protocol 1 as legally binding, though it has not been ratified by the Senate.
Under the agreement the EU will place its current emission-cutting pledges inside the legally-binding Kyoto Protocol, a key demand of developing countries.
The proponents of the protocol praise it as a "legally binding" treaty.
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The government has explicitly ruled out buying credits in the carbon market from abroad, which is the only way to meet Canada's legally binding commitments under the Kyoto protocol if it fails to meet its targets.
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Canada pledged internationally to meet its commitment on the Kyoto Protocol, which was supposed to be legally binding.
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.
Under the Kyoto protocol of the UN climate convention, all developed countries save America must make binding commitments to reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions.
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The task of the meeting is to wind up negotiations under talks associated with the existing Kyoto Protocol on cutting emissions of greenhouse gases, and move towards a new treaty in 2015 binding all nations, rich and poor in tackling climate change.
Beyond extending the Kyoto Protocol to 2017, the Durban Platform also lays the groundwork for an all-inclusive, legally binding deal to cut CO2 emissions.
The other note of trouble is Mr. Obama's decision, also announced yesterday, to treat as legally binding part of a radical 1977 revision to the 1949 Geneva Conventions known as Article 75 of Additional Protocol 1.
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