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...sometime between 11 and 16 years from now. Yet back in 1992 the U.S., along with most other countries, had signed a treaty committing industrial nations to such a rollback by the year 2000--a point not lost on delegates attending a pre-Kyoto planning conference last week in Bonn. "Disappointing and insufficient," is how Cornelia Quennet-Thielen, head of the German delegation, characterized Clinton's proposals. And the European Union issued a statement saying in part, "The U.S. proposal is for an even lower target than that proposed by Japan, which we already considered inadequate to tackle the problem...
...Europeans had previously come out for a stricter standard that would cut emissions by industrial nations to 15% less than 1990 levels by the year 2010. And in Bonn last week, the so-called G77 group of 77 developing nations, along with China, signed on to the European plan (which doesn't require developing countries to make any cuts at all, even though their rapid industrialization and inefficient technology could eventually make them the world's leading polluters...
...BONN: The battle over global warming is joined. President Clinton Wednesday announced greenhouse gas proposals that substantially exceed the wishes of U.S. heavy industry, but Europe remains unimpressed. Clinton proposed that emissions be stabilized at 1990 levels by the year 2012, while Europe hopes for a 15 percent reduction from 1990 levels two years earlier...
...Reaction from delegates in Bonn hammering out a global warming agreement ahead of December?s Kyoto talks ?ranged from approval to resignation to despair,? says TIME correspondent Ursula Sautter. While developing countries expressed outrage and smaller industrialized countries welcomed the proposals, Europe?s G7 governments welcomed the President?s commitment to firm timetables, but squared up for a fight over the numbers. ?They said it?s good that he?s put a position on the table, even if that position is unacceptable.? Sautter anticipates some hard bargaining ahead, with indications that Europe ? confident in the backing of most...
...future reductions by setting legally binding targets. These are supposed to be determined at a December summit in Kyoto, Japan. Now the White House is struggling to figure out what it can accept as a binding target--and sell to the Congress and industry--before a preliminary conference in Bonn later this month. Members of an interagency task force are "meeting every day," says Kathleen McGinty, head of the Council on Environmental Quality, trying to boil the sticky economics and politics down to two or three options...