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Participation in the Kyoto Protocol: dark green indicates countries that have signed and ratified the treaty, yellow indicates those that have signed and hope to ratify it, and red indicates those that have signed but not ratified it.

Kyoto Protocol is an amendment to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change international treaty on climate change, assigning mandatory emission limitations for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to the signatory nations. It works on an emission allowance scheme. Countries that meet their emission reduction target are given quotas while countries who do not meet their targets have to purchase the quotas, thus rewarding countries that follow this treaty.