In 1992, at the Earth Summit in Brazil, upon receiving reports that the global temperatures had
increased by 0.3-0.6 0 C, countries agreed to “stabilise greenhouse gas concentrations in the
atmosphere at a level that could prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate
system”.
To operationalise the consensus reached in Brazil, in 1997, the Kyoto Protocol was agreed,
where industrialised countries and economies were supposed to limit and reduce greenhouse
gases emissions according to the agreed individual targets.