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Walking Away from Kyoto...
...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...
When Whitman was picked to head the EPA, the prospects for this proposal seemed to brighten. But a series of Administration moves that alarmed moderates and sandbagged Whitman--including an about-face on pollution standards and withdrawal from the Kyoto global warming accord--suggested otherwise...
...Lieberman issued a joint statement criticizing the Bush administration's isolation from international negotiations over measures to curb global warming, and urged the U.S. to set mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions. A rejection of the very principle of mandatory caps had prompted President Bush to nix the Kyoto treaty, and the Lieberman-McCain statement suggests the Senate will try to cajole the White House back towards engagement with the wider international community on Kyoto...
...Global warming: F Kyoto was a singular defeat for the Bush administration on the international stage. It had hoped that by firmly nixing the treaty, it would force everyone back to the drawing board to negotiate a new approach. Instead, they went ahead and concluded a deal. Instead of leading, the U.S. now finds itself having to respond to the initiatives of others...