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16:43 | New York, Sep. 24.
Peru’s Deputy Minister of Strategic Development of Natural Resources, Gabriel Quijandría, has announced the country's ratification of the Doha Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol on climate change action, reported Peruvian Ministry of Environment.
The high government official announced this in an address on Wednesday at the United Nations Climate Summit in New York City.
“This ratification allows Peru to continue to participate in the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects we are committed to, considering we are getting ready to host COP20,” Quijandría said.
In doing so, the country has become the sixteenth country to ratify the Doha Amendment, which extends the said Protocol to 2020.
The Kyoto Protocol, the world’s only legally binding global emissions treaty, entered into force on 16 February 2005 and ran out at the end of 2012.
The said amendment was adopted in Doha, Qatar, on 8 December 2012, and included new commitments for Annex I Parties to the Kyoto Protocol who agreed to take on commitments in a second period from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2020.
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Published: 9/24/2014