TOKYO: The landmark Kyoto Protocol, which hopes to slow down global warming, goes into effect today with most of the industrialised world committed to slash gas emissions but the United States and Australia holding out.
The treaty seeks for the industrial world as a whole to slash its greenhouse gas emission by 5.2% by 2012, with targets set according to each country's pollution level.
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