Word: carbonization
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...America's leadership now is crucial. Given that the U.S., which makes up less than 5 percent of the worlds population, contributes 25 percent of the global carbon emissions, the Kyoto Protocol (an agreement negotiated by 160 countries in 1997 to control emissions of the gases that cause global warming) will not go into effect without ratification by the U.S. Senate. To enter into force, the Kyoto Protocol requires ratification by 55 parties to the convention, which together were responsible for at least 55 percent of the world's total carbon dioxide emissions in 1990. And while the cooperation...
...target without hurting the economy. A recent study by the Tellus Institute, a non-profit research and consulting organization, shows that the U.S. can achieve its emissions target entirely or largely through domestic actions by increasing energy efficiency, accelerating the adoption of renewable energy technologies, and shifting to less carbon-intensive fossil fuels...
...negotiations over the Kyoto Protocol on climate change opened in the Netherlands on Monday, and right now Earth's prospects don't look so good - that is if you believe, unlike would-be president-elect George W. Bush, that there is a scientific link between global warming and carbon gas emissions. The current talks are being held to meet a deadline for finalizing the 1997 Kyoto treaty, which requires industrialized nations to dramatically reduce emissions from the use of oil, coal and other fossil fuels. Kyoto emerged out of concern that the planet's warming - 1998 was the hottest year...
...Kyoto treaty is based upon the assumption that the carbon gases created by the burning of fossil fuels significantly contribute to global warming through the "greenhouse effect" - a layer of vapor and gases that trap the sun's heat in our atmosphere. And that assumption is based on solid science, according to the consensus among mainstream scientists, notwithstanding the protestations of Governor Bush, the petrochemical industry and a minority of scientists...
...openly hostile to Kyoto, it remains unlikely that Vice President Gore - who led the U.S. team to the negotiations that produced the protocol - would win the requisite 67 Senate votes to ratify the treaty. After all, the treaty requires that in the next decade, the industrialized nations cut their carbon gas outputs to a level 5 percent below the 1990 figures. And for a booming U.S. economy whose output levels continue to increase every year, that would mean an economically burdensome 20-30 percent reduction in coal-fired electricity, gasoline consumption and other burning of fossil fuel. Europe...