Climate Change Conference Meets in Kyoto, Japan, 1-10 December, 1997
The Third Session of the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC - COP3) met in Kyoto, Japan.
Lengthy negotiating sessions in the Committee of the Whole (COW) led to the Protocol adopted by the Conference. Ambassador Raul Estrada-Oyuela (right) (Argentina), Chairman of COW, and Rinley Kinley (left), Secretary, COW, at one of the sessions.