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The Kyoto climate treaty is hailed on stage but reality tells a different story

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Kyoto , a Royal Shakespeare Company production by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson , is playing at Soho Place in London .

The play focuses on the talks that led to the agreeing of the Kyoto climate treaty of 1997 .

It presents the Kyoto treaty as a world-saving triumph that set binding targets for greenhouse gas emissions, uniting humanity against the scourge of the climate crisis: a beacon of hope.

But the US refused to ratify the treaty, Canada and Japan pulled out of it, and global emissions of greenhouse gases continued to rise unabated.

Global economy 'could face a 50% loss in GDP between 2070 and 2090' Global warming is already claiming lives on a massive scale, says Lancet Countdown .

Heat-related deaths among elderly people have risen by 167% since 1990s ; sand and dust storms mean more and more people are being exposed to dangerously high concentrations of particulate matter.

The cause of the most widespread suffering will be the impact on food production, says Prof Julian Allwood of Cambridge University.

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