AP Environmental Science

Answer: C - The 1997 Kyoto Protocol was meant to deal with the problems associated with global warming.

Key Takeaway: Negotiations during the 1997 Kyoto Protocol sought to reduce the average national greenhouse emissions of all industrialized countries to five percent below the emissions in 1990. Each participating country had its own individual reduction rate and all countries were to achieve the reduction between 2008 and 2012. The United States has not yet ratified the Kyoto Treaty.