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How does the climate change affect people? :recycle: (Environmental,…

- - - - successes
        
        On 22 April 2016 (Earth Day), 174 countries signed the agreement in New York and began adopting it.
      - limitations
        
        the United States, under George Bush, remained firmly outside of Kyoto, so although the UN negotiations carried on year after year, the US negotiators were often in different rooms from the rest of the world.
      - how is this achieved?
        
        The agreement would have entered into force when joined with at least 55% of global greenhouse emissions
  - - - Commitments made (Successes)
        
        During the first commitment period, 37 industrialised countries and the European Community committed to reducing Greenhouse gas emissions to an average of five percent against 1990 levels.
        
        During the second commitment period, parties committed to reducing Greenhouse gas emissions by at least 18 percent below 1990 levels in eight years, from 2013 to 2020;.
      - Monitoring emission targets (Successes)
        Under the Protocol, countries'
        emissions are monitored and
        precisely recorded.
        
        Registry systems
        They track and record transactions by Parties under the mechanisms.
        
        A compliance system
        It ensures that Parties are meeting their commitments and helps them if they have problems doing so.
        
        Reporting
        It is done by Parties by submitting annual emission inventories and national reports under the Protocol at regular intervals.
        
        The Adaptation Fund
        It was established to help finance adaptation projects and programmes in developing countries that are Parties to the Kyoto Protocol.
    - - Under Kyoto, developing nations, such as China and India, are not obliged to cut their emissions. This is because developing economies are not required to meet definite emission-reduction targets according to the protocol, so as to not hinder the countries’ economic development and progress.
        However, there is no one to determine when countries in transition, such as these two, have completed their development process and should start to be considered a developed country in terms of contributing to the world’s efforts to slow down global warming.
      - Despite the Kyoto protocol's ambitious goals, even countries that have shown to be its leading advocates, such as Japan, Canada, and the members of the European Union won’t be able to meet their targeted reductions of emissions.