Word: kyoto
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...administration has alienated U.S. allies by creating a perception that Washington isn't much concerned with what anyone else thinks. Worse still, the Bush team has irritated friends in situations where such alienation is avoidable. Kyoto was the obvious example: In the end, the Europeans were willing to negotiate the terms of the treaty to the point of pulling many of its teeth, but President Bush simply walked away. Further, he failed to offer any alternative mechanism for addressing the problem of global warming. For U.S. allies who'd spent a decade negotiating Kyoto with Washington, the Bush position...
...KYOTO PROTOCOL March 2001 The Bush Administration abandoned the 1997 climate-control treaty to cut emissions of so-called greenhouse gases linked to global warming, claiming that developing nations got off too easy. Last week 178 countries reached a climate accord anyway...
...close of the Kyoto Global-Warming Treaty discussions held in Bonn last week, exhausted negotiators from nearly every country on earth had reason to be proud. They had done what no one expected--they reached a breakthrough agreement to limit greenhouse gases. During the concluding remarks, as each speaker praised the next, only the chief U.S. official on the scene drew an undiplomatic response. When Paula Dobriansky told the gathering that the Bush Administration "will not abdicate our responsibility" to address global warming, the hall filled with boos. That's because the U.S., the world's largest producer of greenhouse...
George W. Bush has yet to decide what, if anything, he will do to combat global warming. But he 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. So he kept the U.S. out of the discussions. In doing so, the Administration may have lost its last opportunity to help shape the international response to the problem. And Bush may be in danger of losing control over climate action domestically. After months of internal debate, the Administration is still "consulting" on the issue...
...uniform and medals, is the first Croatian to appear before the court. The charges against him relate to a Croatian assault on the Medak pocket in 1993, when Croatian soldiers under his command murdered at least 38 Serbs. He pleaded not guilty. SWITZERLAND Another "No" Having withdrawn from the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions and turned down proposals to curb the trade in small arms, the U.S. further dismayed international opinion by rejecting...