RTCC: Peru and Djibouti have formally agreed to extend the Kyoto Protocol up to 2020.
The Kyoto Protocol aims to reduce emissions prior to 2020, when a new UN agreement is set to come into force. But until an amendment is signed off by at least three quarters of the parties, the protocol only applies to the years 2008-12. In the interim, that leaves the world without an international framework binding them to emissions reductions.
So far only 17 of the 144 countries needed to bring the amendment...