Polluter Nations Torpedo UN Climate Change Treaty. / Chee Yoke Ling.
by Ling, Chee Yoke; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 43Environment. Publisher: Third World Resurgence, 2001ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): Framework Convention on Climate Change | Carbon dioxide sinks | Climatic changes | Global warming | Greenhouse effect -- International aspects | Greenhouse gases | Kyoto Protocol, 1997DDC classification: 050 Summary: "Attempts at a UN conference on climate change at The Hague last November [2000] to reach an agreement on enforcing the minimum measures needed to reduce emissions of the 'greenhouse gases' which cause global warming collapsed as a result of the intransigence of some of the world's richest nations. Heading the pack of polluters which torpedoed the agreement in the interests of big business was the US." (THIRD WORLD RESURGENCE) The author reports on the world's governments' efforts to reach agreement on enforcing the Kyoto Protocol and expresses the global disappointment felt as talks collapsed when the United States "could not get its way with its version of carbon-sink accounting and total freedom to buy carbon credits at low prices from abroad.".
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Originally Published: Polluter Nations Torpedo UN Climate Change Treaty, Jan./Feb. 2001; pp. 8-13.
"Attempts at a UN conference on climate change at The Hague last November [2000] to reach an agreement on enforcing the minimum measures needed to reduce emissions of the 'greenhouse gases' which cause global warming collapsed as a result of the intransigence of some of the world's richest nations. Heading the pack of polluters which torpedoed the agreement in the interests of big business was the US." (THIRD WORLD RESURGENCE) The author reports on the world's governments' efforts to reach agreement on enforcing the Kyoto Protocol and expresses the global disappointment felt as talks collapsed when the United States "could not get its way with its version of carbon-sink accounting and total freedom to buy carbon credits at low prices from abroad.".
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