Word: kyoto
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...years ago today, leaders from around the globe began a 10-day United Nations summit in Kyoto, Japan to address the threat of global climate change. While the risks posed by such change have not disappeared, serious proposals to mitigate climate change (or "global warming") have vanished from the political map. After two years of stasis, it is high time that the United States face the problem of a changing climate and take positive steps to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions...
...know that temperatures are rising," says TIME environmental editor Charles Alexander. "With the thinning of the ice layer, there are so many signs of global warming that it only makes sense to take some action." One step for Congress: ratifying the emissions-control standards of the 1997 Kyoto Treaty. The measure has been stalled there ever since President Clinton signed it two years ago; the news from up north could be one more bit of ammo for proponents. And with scientists expecting the temperature to grow another 3.5 degrees over the next century, Congressional opponents could find their arguments...
...probably develop technologies to deal with excess carbon--some scientists talk about removing it from smokestacks and stashing it underground--but the most direct way to control carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is not to put it there in the first place. This is the point of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol--signed by 84 nations but not ratified by the U.S. Senate--which would limit developed countries' carbon emissions from cars, power plants and other major users of fossil fuels...
Fineberg, in fact, just returned from a 10-day jaunt that took him to Taipei, Hong Kong and Kyoto...
...TREATY] Kyoto Protocol [GENERAL PURPOSE] To reduce greenhouse-gas emissions [OTHER HOLDOUTS] China, India, Mexico, Brazil...