In 1997, the United States withdrew from an agreement that set limits on the emissions of greenhouse gasses from industrialized nations that was known as the

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The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in 1997, and it set binding targets for 37 industrialized countries and the European Union to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. The United States signed the agreement but later withdrew in 2001. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is the parent treaty of the Kyoto Protocol, but it was not the agreement that the US withdrew from. The Montreal Protocol focuses on the reduction of ozone-depleting substances, not greenhouse gases. The Manhattan Protocol and Dayton Accords do not relate to climate change or emissions.

In 1997, the United States Withdrew from an Agreement That