Word: kyoto
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...things, global warming - a topic on which the U.S. leader is seen in the wider world as something of a flat-earther. And he reported after the meeting that they'd held a candid discussion but failed to agree over President Bush's decision to back out of the Kyoto Accord on climate change endorsed last year by President Clinton. Clinton, of course, had avoided submitting the treaty for certain defeat in the Senate (where the very idea of ratifying it was rejected 95-0), leaving it signed but not ratified. But it was reported Wednesday that the White House...
...biggest polluter has essentially turned its back on an agreement painstakingly hammered out over four years, if not already substantially watered down to meet the concerns of the Clinton administration. Most scientists engaged with the problem of global warming agree that the carbon-gas-emission cuts required by Kyoto are rather feeble when measured against the level of cutbacks urgently needed to avoid catastrophic consequences. But that wasn't President Bush's problem with the treaty...
...Kyoto Protocol is the only game in town in their eyes," Whitman also wrote the President. "There is a real fear in the international community that if the U.S. is not willing to discuss the issue within the framework of Kyoto the whole thing will fall apart...
...American environmentalists are also hoping that all the other industrialized countries will ratify Kyoto by the end of 2003, even without the U.S. on board. This would present a complex business environment for multinationals who then might be enlisted into supporting the treaty...
...Rather than hanging out in D.C., waiting for a dinner invitation from someone from the White House, they should to into the country and work with people" to build grassroots support for Kyoto, says Stephan Singer, a World Wildlife Fund official in Brussels. "They should go explain to farmers who are opposed to Kyoto and to unions opposed to Kyoto that there cannot be coal mining forever...