OREANDA-NEWS. On April 30, 2007 the President of the Republic of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, signed into action the Decree which approves an amendment to Annex B to the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change adopted on November 17, 2006, in Nairobi, reported the Presidential website www. president.gov.by.

In pursuance of the amendment, Belarus assumes an obligation to limit and reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions to the level of 92 percent against the base year of 1990, which corresponds to 117,2 million metric tons. The quantitative obligations established for Belarus in terms of limitation and reduction of the amount of greenhouse gas emissions are an indispensable condition for entitling the republic to use the economic mechanisms and other measures stipulated by the Kyoto Protocol.