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Robert E. Grady's article, with suggestions on how to revise the Kyoto Protocol to make it acceptable and effective [VIEWPOINT, June 25], was right on the mark. An incentive-based long-term system involving all countries is definitely the way to go to reduce global emissions. Costs can be equalized based on global market levels. Each country's individual expenses can be measured as a percentage of its GDP and a value for credits calculated. Richer countries will obviously pay more of the total, but all countries will share in some part of the cost of what essentially affects...
That teetering edifice that is the Kyoto Protocol gets some emergency repair work this week as delegates from 180 countries gather in Bonn to work out problems that threaten to scuttle the deal altogether. With the U.S. definitely not on board, and Japan threatening to leave as well, there is tremendous pressure to get enough nations together to adopt some version of the treaty designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. If Japan withdraws support, the accord?s days may be numbered, and hope isn?t high among delegates that there will be an agreement this time around...
...your report on President Bush's trip to Europe [NATION, June 18]: I am appalled by your constant efforts to make Bush look inexperienced and dumb. You show your lack of knowledge about what he has accomplished during his terms as Governor of Texas. And as for the Kyoto Protocol, it is just a matter of common sense for Bush not to implement mandatory emissions reductions. They would be disastrous for the whole country. WILFRIED HEUER Fredericksburg, Texas...
...There have been renewed calls in Japan for America to withdraw its military personnel. Europe and Russia are dismayed by our missile defense plans, and some European countries are even more disturbed by the sheer cavalier attitude with which we brushed aside the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. This is particularly startling coming in the beginning of an administration that promised a more humble, less arrogant American attitude abroad. It is now clear that was simply code for less intervention, not a real commitment to treat other countries as partners...
EUROPE The international Kyoto Protocol, to curb greenhouse-gas emissions HIP-HOP The Senate's Media and Marketing Accountability Act, to curb artistic expression...