Word: kyoto
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...told federal scientists that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would rise 25% from 1850 to 2000. Thirty years later, as the first chairman of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change--which shared the 2007 Nobel with Gore--Bolin oversaw reports that led to such landmark agreements as the Kyoto Protocol, which called on industrialized nations to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions to 5% below 1990 levels...
...that's beginning to change, thanks to the clean development mechanism (CDM), a Kyoto Protocol policy that has rich countries funding greenhouse gas reductions in poor nations like Indonesia. With technical support from the U.S. giant General Electric - along with companies in Japan, Austria and the U.K. - Suwung is installing equipment that will capture the landfill gases and convert them to electricity...
...move. We want to inspire everyone and we want to let people know that the wonderful things that are done in America, that it was at a mayor's conference in Los Angeles a few months ago, there were [approximately] 600 mayors who had signed on to the Kyoto Treaty. They are all doing their share. There are so many states in the United States that have already signed onto that. There are so many great things that are happening despite the fact that Washington is falling behind...
...proposals come just days after a U.N. agreement in Bali on the next stage of global climate change negotiations after the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012. The E.U. executive says that if Europe is to stake a credible claim for leadership on climate change, it will have to show serious resolve in cutting car emissions, the main gas blamed for global warming...
...says transport is the worst-performing sector under the Kyoto Protocol, and transport CO2 emissions in the E.U. grew by 32% between 1990 and 2005 while other sectors reduced their emissions by 9.5% on average over the same period. The group also believes some carmakers are making progress: Fiat has already met a target voluntarily adopted by the industry, to bring emissions down to 140g/km by 2008. Citroen and Europe's second largest carmaker, Renault, are on track to meet this target and Ford and Peugeot are not far off either...