Word: co2
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Most disturbing has been the White House's resistance to any targets or timetables for cutting down on production of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, which may lead to global warming. The European Community wants to reduce CO2 emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000, but America's refusal to go along has effectively stymied the latest round of climate-change negotiations. Environmentalists, and even the conference organizers, argue that the U.S., as the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases, has an enormous responsibility to be cooperative on this issue. The Americans say that adopting specific goals...
That is a questionable assumption. The changes advocated in drafts of documents like Agenda 21 -- such as commitments to mass transit and energy efficiency -- could ultimately improve Americans' standard of living. A recent study coordinated by the Union of Concerned Scientists contends that slashing CO2 emissions by 70% over the next 40 years would cost the U.S. economy $2.7 trillion, but would trim fuel and utility bills by $5 trillion. Reducing waste and pollution will take fundamental changes in the American economy, but, says the U.N.'s Maurice Strong, secretary-general of the Earth Summit, "the U.S. hasn...
Environmentalists argued that market forces have led to the elimination of the rain forests and increased steel and farm production. The free market has contributed to the loss of hundreds of animal and plant species, as well as to the rapid increase in the output of CO2 and PCP's into the environment, they said...
...begun to try a new role: as protectors, not despoilers, of the earth's resources. Last week the environmental spotlight was on California, where two big Los Angeles power companies -- Southern California Edison and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power -- unveiled plans to cut their emissions of CO2 20% during the next 20 years, largely through conservation programs and the use of solar and geothermal technologies. It was the first time any U.S. utility had promised to reduce its output of CO2 to help curb global warming. Southern California Edison chairman John Bryson says the policy "makes good...
...seen the light, and manufacturers and motorists still do not have enough incentives to conserve fuel. What is needed, says Gus Speth, president of the World Resources Institute, is an initiative like the one adopted by the European Community, which calls for member countries to stabilize their CO2 emissions at 1990 levels. So far, the Bush Administration has refused to commit itself to any such goal. In fact, in the energy plan put forward by the White House in February, conservation was overshadowed by calls for increased energy production...