But the
Kyoto Treaty does not require the sort of clean-up that Hansen has in mind, which seems inexpensive and healthful on its own merits, in contrast to dramatic carbon dioxide cuts.
Bush has expressed the futility of addressing global warming without commitments from India and China, whose emissions are now growing rapidly, but are were exempted from the
Kyoto treaty. There will be a continuing need for new, clean energy technologies as most of the economies of the world continue to grow.
According to the World Bank, industrialized countries as a whole need to reduce emissions by some 4.3 billion tons to attain the reduction target set by the
Kyoto treaty.
John Podhoretz' book Bush Country mentions the environment only in a brief aside on the "unfairness" of the
Kyoto Treaty. Ann Coulter's Treason contains one passing reference to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Member states adopted the
Kyoto treaty two years ago but only recently passed legislation forcing governments of the 25-country bloc to check and report emissions.
Pres Putin recommits to the
Kyoto treaty after months of mixed signals characterizing it as a tradeoff for the economic agreement, in exchange for European support for its bid to join the WTO, a breakthrough that can revive the long-stalled pact designed to curb global warming.
Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) They asked the GAO (the investigative ann of Congress) to determine why two economic studies (both conducted by administration agencies in 1998 on the costs of implementing the international
Kyoto Treaty) reached vastly different conclusions.
7 parliamentary elections in Russia, which made the biggest country in the world appear to have become a "puppet democracy" for Putin, whether or not Moscow's refusal to ratify the
Kyoto treaty was really final.
rejection of the
Kyoto treaty on global warming and the unprecedented "unsigning" of the treaty on the International Criminal Court only worsened matters.
After rejecting the
Kyoto treaty, the Bush administration has found another way to make greenhouse-gas emissions disappear: For the first time in six years, the EPA has omitted a section on climate change from its annual assessment of U.S.
There was an amazing move forward on the
Kyoto Treaty when the two countries on which its success depended, Canada and Russia, announced they would ratify it.