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...demand means that more costly measures need not be implemented. As a kind of test run, 21 of the 25 European Union nations have been participating in a carbon emissions trading scheme (ets) since the beginning of this year. The ambitious goal for the E.U., which ratified the Kyoto Protocol in 2002, is to reduce greenhouse-gas production by 8% from 1990 levels...
...addressing global warming. I was keenly aware that this was the first opportunity for our closest allies to take the measure of President Bush's stance on environmental policies. I also knew their expectations were low because the President had come out against U.S. ratification of the Kyoto Protocol before the 2000 election. This controversial international treaty--which, at the time, had been ratified by only one industrial country, Romania--requires much of the developed world to make significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to slow global warming...
...percent of the global growth in greenhouse gases over the next 15 years. There was also considerable skepticism about the ability of any developed nation to meet its aggressive goals along with concern about the economic costs. Recognizing political reality, the Clinton Administration, a strong advocate of the protocol, never even sent it to the Senate for ratification...
...letter, which he tucked into his pocket as he rushed out. As I would soon discover, the letter was the President's answer to the appeal sent by Senator Hagel and his three colleagues the week before. In his reply, the President restated his opposition to the Kyoto Protocol, and then added, "I do not believe ... that the government should impose on power plants mandatory emissions reductions for carbon dioxide, which is not a pollutant under the Clean Air Act." By stating that carbon dioxide was not a pollutant, he had issued a stronger repudiation of his campaign position than...
Nonetheless, Bush would have us believe that sensitivity and tact are now all the rage at the White House. Condoleeza Rice told the senators at her recent confirmation hearings that “the time for diplomacy is now.” Apparently 2001, when Bush abandoned the Kyoto Protocol instead of working with other nations to improve it, was not a good time for diplomacy. Nor was it the time for diplomacy, evidently, when Bush enraged the world community by pulling the U.S. out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. Then there was March 2003, when Bush abruptly decided...