UN Meeting over climate change finally concluded with an agreement by more than 190 nations to work toward a future

treaty that would require all countries to reduce emissions that contribute to global warming. Earlier it was for advanced industrialised nations to cut emissions while allowing developing countries including the economic powerhouses China, India and Brazil to escape binding commitments. The delegates also agreed on the creation of a fund to help poor countries adapt to climate change, and to measures involving the preservation of tropical forests and the development of clean-energy technology. Kyoto Protocol: the fraying 1997 emissions agreement that sets different terms for advanced and developing countries, for several more years. The Kyoto Protocol is a protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change (UNFCCC or FCCC), aimed at fighting global warming. The UNFCCC is an international environmental treaty with the goal of achieving the "stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. The Protocol was initially adopted on 11 December 1997 in Kyoto, Japan, and entered into force on 16 February 2005. As of September 2011, 191 states have signed and ratified the protocol. (1) At present Tamil, Telugu, Sanskrit, and Kannada have been designated as classical languages.