Word: kyoto
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There are some people who don't. I think the science is clear that human activity is contributing to global warming, and I think it's urgent we act on it. Since America won't sign up to [the Kyoto agreement], I'm trying to see if we can put in place a process that binds together not just the main developed countries but China and India, who are going to be major consumers of energy...
...Raymond, Exxon's chairman and CEO, is a verbal gusher of anti-global-warming rhetoric who opposes mandatory caps on greenhouse-gas emissions. Environmentalists accuse Exxon of being the "No. 1 climate criminal," responsible for the Bush Administration's refusal to sign on to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which sets targets for reducing pollution that causes global warming. "We do think there is a risk of climate change, but there are much better approaches to making progress than mandatory caps," says Sherri Stuewer, Exxon's vice president of safety, health and environment...
...time best seller in Columbia Records' history. Springsteen, 35, has been on a concert blitz since a year ago. By the time he takes a break this October, he will have played 62 cities around the world in 15 months. The shows have sold out everywhere; in Milan and Kyoto, the audiences sang whole songs with...
...past 40 years, TIME has become a magazine of global reach and impact. By latest reckoning, some 32 million people read it each week, more than 23 million in the U.S. and the rest abroad. TIME now connects a dentist in Kyoto, a stockbroker in Bonn, an interior decorator in Boston--and five subscribers on tiny Tuvalu Island in the South Pacific (occupations unknown...
...call the fashion police just yet. As part of its campaign to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 6% of 1990 levels by 2012 (under the Kyoto Protocol), Japan has figured out a way to save energy with style: no tie, no jacket, no buttoning up. Dubbed "Cool Biz" (kuuru bizu), the new casual has officials and executives shedding their signature suits a la Clark Kent this summer and raising office thermostats 5°F, to a wilting 82.4°. Aptly dressed in casual clothes, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi hopes to save the second largest importer of oil 81 million gal. each...