Kyoto Protocol was signed by member countries at Kyoto (Japan) in :

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The correct answer is 1997.

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In 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 11th session of the Meeting of the Parties to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol (CMP 11).
It was concluded and established legally binding obligations for developed countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
Its goal is to fight global warming by reducing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere to “a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system”.
Kyoto protocol aimed to cut emissions of greenhouse gases across the developed world by about 5% by 2012 compared with 1990 levels.

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India ratified Kyoto Protocol in 2002.
The Kyoto Protocol came into force in February 2005.
There are currently 192 Parties in Kyoto Protocol.
Canada withdrew its name from the Kyoto protocol in 2012.
Kyoto Protocol is the only global treaty with binding limits on GHG emissions.