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Please extend the underline to the word "signify" in the question.
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Done, Thank you for letting me know :)
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I am not certain enough to provide my reasoning for an answer choice, however, to me answer B reeks of redundancy:

"...and important as an important vehicle..."

I ended up with answer choice C via process of elimination
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The Kyoto Protocol, a politically divisive environmental treaty and important as a vehicle by which to gain international consensus on stabilizing greenhouse gas emissions as well, signify the cooperation of many different authors.

(A) and important as a vehicle by which to gain international consensus on stabilizing greenhouse gas emissions as well

(B) and important as an important vehicle for gaining international consensus on stabilizing greenhouse gas emissions, signifies

(C) and also a vehicle of gaining important international consensus on the stabilization of greenhouse emissions is signifying

(D) an important vehicle in international consensus on stabilizing greenhouse gas emissions and have signified

(E) and as international consensus important to stabilizing greenhouse gas emissions too, signifies



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i think there is typo in option (B)

should be

(B) and as an important vehicle for gaining international consensus on stabilizing greenhouse gas emissions, signifies


IMO B :grin:
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I am not certain enough to provide my reasoning for an answer choice, however, to me answer B reeks of redundancy:

"...and important as an important vehicle..."

I ended up with answer choice C via process of elimination

hey Arro44 :)
i think the problem with C is that "is signifying" is incorrectly used when it comes to treaties/agreements/contrats :grin:
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I am not certain enough to provide my reasoning for an answer choice, however, to me answer B reeks of redundancy:

"...and important as an important vehicle..."

I ended up with answer choice C via process of elimination

hey Arro44 :)
i think the problem with C is that "is signifying" is incorrectly used when it comes to treaties/agreements/contrats :grin:
have a great weekend :)

Your explanation certainly makes sense, but I am still not happy with the redundancy in B (unless I fell prey to a typo as you pointed out).
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Official Explanation :

The subject of the sentence is the Kyoto Protocol. The sentence ascribes the verb signify to the Kyoto Protocol creating a subject-verb agreement error. Eliminate (A).
Similarly, choice (D) includes a subject-verb agreement by using have signified for the singular noun the Kyoto Protocol.

In choice (C), the verb phrase is signifying is awkward.

In choice (E), the use of the words and and too creates a redundancy error. Therefore, the correct answer is (B).
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Please extend the underline to the word "signify" in the question.
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Done, Thank you for letting me know :)

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",signify" should appear in option A.
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The Kyoto Protocol, a politically divisive environmental treaty and important as a vehicle by which to gain international consensus on stabilizing greenhouse gas emissions as well, signify the cooperation of many different authors.

(A) and important as a vehicle by which to gain international consensus on stabilizing greenhouse gas emissions as well, signify

(B) as well as an important vehicle for gaining international consensus on stabilizing greenhouse gas emissions, signifies

(C) and also a vehicle of gaining important international consensus on the stabilization of greenhouse emissions is signifying

(D) an important vehicle in international consensus on stabilizing greenhouse gas emissions and have signified

(E) and as international consensus important to stabilizing greenhouse gas emissions too, signifies



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Dear Verbal Moderator,
Can we remove the if-then tag from this question, question doesn't seem to test that. Thank you.
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Meaning: The Kyoto protocol signifies the cooperation of many different authors. The sentence also shares a characteristic of the Kyoto protocol. It says the protocol is a politically divisive environmental treaty and an important vehicle for gaining internal consensus on stabilizing greenhouse gas emissions.

Errors:
1) S-V error: Subject, The Kyoto Protocol, is singular and requires singular noun signifies instead of plural signify.
2) Modifier error: worded incorrectly

Answer: B
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