Last 10 March 2004, all provisions of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol were made legally binding in the EU by a Decision of the European Parliament and the Council (Decision 280/2004/EC concerning a mechanism for monitoring Community greenhouse gas emissions and for implementing the Kyoto Protocol).
This means that the Kyoto Protocol has force of EU law. The Decision reaffirms the EU’s global leadership in fighting climate change.
The Kyoto Protocol is part of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which is the only international framework that fights global warming.
