Word: kyoto
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...subsidiary of one of Japan's biggest conglomerates, to pay $1.4 million apiece to 15 Chinese forced to work in the company's mines during the war. (Japan transported an estimated 40,000 Chinese conscripts to its islands to work on construction sites and mines.) In August 2001 a Kyoto court awarded compensation to 15 Korean workers forced aboard a naval ship that subsequently exploded and sank in 1945. And last year, a Tokyo court ordered the government to pay $170,000 to the son of the late Liu Lien-yen, a slave worker from China who escaped in July...
Despite this unprecedented effort, partisan critics still lament the President's refusal to support the Kyoto Protocol--forgetting that the Senate voted 95 to 0 against Kyoto's principles in 1997. It's worth remembering why: Kyoto would put millions of Americans out of work for the sake of meeting unrealistic targets that would have a negligible effect. The developing world, which will soon account for the majority of all greenhouse-gas emissions, has no obligations under the Kyoto Protocol. Even the industrialized world isn't expected to make major reductions in its emissions; rather, it will simply buy credits...
...which was published in English last year, became a best seller, and conservatives worldwide use its ideas to justify inaction on such issues as deforestation and global warming. "We should do something that actually does good and not sounds good," he says of the expense of complying with the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. "For the cost of Kyoto for one year, we could give clean drinking water and sanitation to every human being on earth...
...Bush Administration continues to embrace a policy--at home and around the world--of pure inaction at best. In a stroke of unilateralism the White House announced it wouldn't even try to fix a decade- in-the-making international agreement, the Kyoto Protocol, to address global warming. That position abandons the work of 160 nations begun with the approval of President Bush's father...
...buying and selling of permits for greenhouse gases is permitted under the Kyoto treaty to combat climate change. Despite the rejection of the pact by the U.S., other major governments, including Japan, have ratified it, and trading in permits for carbon dioxide, a leading greenhouse gas, is increasing in Europe. In the U.S., many executives who expect eventually to face more rigorous laws are eager to get experience coping with caps. "We really have endeavored to construct a program that will be highly credible and successful--and by success we mean it will reduce greenhouse-gas emissions," says Dale Heydlauff...