Kyoto Protocol
Rich countries' first pledges to cut greenhouse gases
On 11 December 1997 in Kyoto, parties to the UN climate convention adopted a protocol committing developed countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions by an average of about 5% below 1990 levels by 2008–2012. It entered into force in 2005; the United States never ratified it.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1989 Invention of the World Wide Web — 8 years earlier
- 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall — 8 years earlier
- 1991–2001 Yugoslav Wars — 6 years earlier
- 1992 Maastricht Treaty — 5 years earlier
- 2002 Euro notes and coins — 5 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1980 Solidarity — 17 years earlier
- 1985–1991 Perestroika — 12 years earlier
- 1986 Chernobyl disaster — 11 years earlier
- 1989 Revolutions of 1989 — 8 years earlier
- 1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union — 6 years earlier
Middle East
- 1979 Iranian Revolution — 18 years earlier
- 1980–1988 Iran–Iraq War — 17 years earlier
- 1990–1991 Gulf War — 7 years earlier
- 1993 Oslo Accords — 4 years earlier
- 2011–2024 Syrian civil war — 14 years later
Africa
- 1974 Lucy is discovered — 23 years earlier
- 1983–1985 The Ethiopian famine — 14 years earlier
- 1994 End of apartheid in South Africa — 3 years earlier
- 1998–2003 Second Congo War — 1 year later
- 2011 Independence of South Sudan — 14 years later
Asia
- 1975–1979 The Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian genocide — 22 years earlier
- 1997 Handover of Hong Kong — same year
- 1998 Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests — 1 year later
- 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami — 7 years later
- 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami — 14 years later
Americas
- 1983 Birth of the Internet: ARPANET adopts TCP/IP — 14 years earlier
- 1990 Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope — 7 years earlier
- 2001 September 11 attacks — 4 years later
- 2003 Human genome sequenced — 6 years later
- 2007 Apple unveils the iPhone — 10 years later
Oceania
- 1992 The Mabo decision — 5 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Nelson Mandela (aged 79)
- Neil Armstrong (aged 67)
- Mother Teresa (aged 87)
- Ronald Reagan (aged 86)
- Edmund Hillary (aged 78)
- Jimmy Carter (aged 73)
- Fidel Castro (aged 71)
- Elizabeth II (aged 71)
- Gabriel García Márquez (aged 70)
- Mikhail Gorbachev (aged 66)