Word: protocolic
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...there were noisy protests. Once the old station at Marsden Point is modernized, it will be the cleanest coal-fired plant in Australasia, says its owner, Mighty River Power. But that doesn't impress critics, who say getting electricity from coal is a betrayal of New Zealand's Kyoto Protocol obligations. "It's a backward step for us to start using coal," says Fitzsimons...
...forgotten that deep differences remain. Last week, the Kyoto protocol on climate change came into effect without the support of America, the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases. The International Criminal Court, which the E.U. considers an ideal forum to deal with the slaughter in Darfur, is opposed by the U.S. And major disagreements persist over how best to stymie Iran's apparent intention to develop nuclear weapons, whether to lift the arms embargo on China, whether to sanction Syria for occupying Lebanon and aiding Iraqi insurgents and Hezbollah terrorists, and whether Europe should brand Hezbollah itself a terrorist...
...still learning about the science of climate change." SCOTT MCCLELLAN, White House spokesman, on the Bush Administration's refusal to endorse the Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which went into effect last week...
...battle is being fought for the fast-growing market. Leading the charge has been Softbank, which initiated a broadband ADSL service in 2001 under the Yahoo! BB logo at rates that far undercut anything then on the market. In December that same year, it added VOIP (voice over Internet protocol)?telephony delivered over the Internet?at deep discounts to NTT's fixed-line phone fees. And in July 2003 it rolled out BBTV, a selection of 24 channels streamed to users' televisions not via cable-TV wires but over the Internet. Today, 4.7 million households (or nearly a quarter...
...rules complicate any such plans. Because the Kyoto protocol requires reductions from a baseline of 1990 emissions, some rapidly modernizing countries, such as the Czech Republic, may have already surpassed their Kyoto targets. Yet the ets has its own goals, capped closer to today's actual emissions. The Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade says the country needs at least 100 million E.U. allowances if it is to sustain its gdp growth rate of about 4% from this year to 2007. Too few allowances could stifle growth in the new E.U. states, while too many would not motivate investment...