This paper examines the Kyoto Accord, an international treaty among signatory
countries to reduce the amount of
greenhouse
gases emitted by their industries if their neighboring
countries do likewise. In particular, it looks at how, in 1997, the federal government of Canada signed the Kyoto Accord, which committed it to cutting emissions of
greenhouse gases to six percent by 2012 and how the province of Alberta, which produces the majority of Canada's oil and gas, opposed the Treaty, as it would significantly cripple its energy industry and deprive it of billions of dollars.