Kyoto Accord

基本解释

The Kyoto accord expires in 2012.
该协定将于2012年到期。
The agreement would go into effect in 2012, when the current Kyoto accord expires.
协议将于2012年生效，届时，将取代现行的《京都议定书》。
And who's going to pay the price of the Kyoto Accord?
那谁将会为京都协定书付出代价呢？

Kyoto expires in 2012. But many say a political framework is more likely at Copenhagen, with a binding accord to be worked out possibly next year.

The three dozen or so rich countries that signed the Kyoto accord agreed to lower their emissions of greenhouse gases by at least 5% below 1990 levels by 2012—but did not specify how.
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Mr Grubb shows why it is right to be concerned about such practical difficulties but also why they do not undermine the success of the Kyoto accord, which they take to be one of the great negotiating successes of the past half-century.
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