Kyoto and Beyond

1. This country agreed on maintaining their 1990 emissions.
3. The Kyoto protocol signed in this country.
5. Canada will not make a commitment to this round of Kyoto.
6. DIOXIDE The most concentrated in the atmosphere.
9. KENT Canada's environment minister.
11. One way that greenhouse gases are increased.
14. EIGHT The number of countries that committed to cutting their emissions by 5% below 1990 levels by 2012.
15. This country would have been allowed to increase greenhouse gas emissions.
16. YEAR 1990

2. Developing countries complain that these countries did not need to focus on cutting emissions while their economies were developing.
4. These countries aren't required to cut emissions.
7. STATES This country did not ratify because the President thought it would ruin their economy.
8. Primary responsibility for the production of greenhouse gases belongs to them.
10. EFFECT The process of the sun's rays bouncing off the earth, hitting atmospheric gases and bouncing back to the earth's surface.
12. How developed and developing countries should be treated according to industrialized countries.
13. A country that contributes 5 times the greenhouse gases that the population indicates they should.