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...said President Bush believes the Kyoto treaty is "fatally flawed because it doesn't require developing countries to limit their fossil-fuel use immediately, as it does industrialized countries," and therefore he retreated from discussions in Bonn [NATION, Aug. 6]. Bush fails to acknowledge that most developing countries don't have the resources to implement dramatic change in their fuel-use policies right away. The U.S. clearly does, however, and we must do so first and set the example for the world. We can't expect the stretched economies of Third World countries to bear the burden of measures...
...close of the Kyoto Global-Warming Treaty discussions held in Bonn last week, exhausted negotiators from nearly every country on earth had reason to be proud. They had done what no one expected--they reached a breakthrough agreement to limit greenhouse gases. During the concluding remarks, as each speaker praised the next, only the chief U.S. official on the scene drew an undiplomatic response. When Paula Dobriansky told the gathering that the Bush Administration "will not abdicate our responsibility" to address global warming, the hall filled with boos. That's because the U.S., the world's largest producer of greenhouse...
...gave all that campaign cash to. Most of these companies saw the need for a cleaner and more diverse energy landscape a long time ago (or at least the need to respond to future governments? wishes for same) and have invested accordingly. Bush, meanwhile, has been blithely mentioning since Bonn a son-of-Kyoto type initiative that will demonstrate his Administration?s commitment to fighting global warming. Something aimed right at Big Energy could be Bush?s solution...
...course, the Europeans ultimately conceded to many of the points raised by Clinton administration negotiators in previous talks over the terms of Kyoto, and critics will charge that had they showed the degree of flexibility on view at Bonn during talks last November, President Bush might not have found it as easy to trash the treaty on taking office. The Clinton administration was never happy with the terms of Kyoto, but it kept its negotiators at the table to grind away at the original treaty. President Bush gambled that withdrawing from the negotiations - that is, removing the indispensable polluter - would...
...real significance of Bonn was that the Europeans decided to stand up to what many view as a dangerous U.S. unilateralism on an issue in which American domestic decisions are deemed to have a global impact. And the need to send Washington a message would certainly have added incentive for the Europeans, Japanese, Canadians and others to sort out their own differences on Kyoto. Whatever the treaty's imperfections, there was a collective sense of achievement among the overwhelming majority of the world's industrialized and developing nations at the fact that they'd fashioned an epic international consensus...