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...ACCORD TO ENFORCE THE 1972 BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION July 2001 Abandoning seven years of negotiations, the U.S. rejected the agreement last week, saying that "the draft protocol would put national security and confidential business information at risk...
...delegates at Bonn appeared to be well aware of the political significance of their decision to respond to the Bush administration's attempt to scrap the agreement by simply going ahead without America. EU negotiator Olivier Deleuze told the delegates at Bonn, "Almost every single country stayed in the protocol. There was one that said the protocol was flawed. Do you see the Kyoto Protocol flawed...
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...
...Kyoto Protocol aims to limit global warming by making rich countries cut emissions - especially carbon dioxide from cars and factories - but does not put the same requirements on developing nations. Talks in The Hague last November stalled over issues of enforcement. Economic concerns and the exemption of India and China were among the reasons cited by President George W. Bush when the U.S. renounced the protocol in March...