Source: Grist weekly digest 23 November 2004
ON YOUR MARK, GET SET, KYOTO!
Kyoto gets a kick-off date
After nearly seven years of doubt and often rancorous debate, the Kyoto Protocol has an official start date: Feb. 16, 2005, at which point the treaty will become binding. The 90-day countdown period began last week, thanks to the handover of official documents from Russia to the U.N. at a ceremony in Nairobi, declaring its ratification. Only four industrialized countries now remain outside the treaty: the U.S., Australia, and global powerhouses Liechtenstein and Monaco. The U.S. bailed on the treaty shortly after George W. Bush came to office in 2001, claiming it represented too great a burden on the economy, and that it was unfair, imposing specific targets only on developed countries and not on rapidly developing (and polluting) countries like China and India. Despite U.S. intransigence, many U.S. companies are pushing to meet Kyoto targets anyway, leery of losing their ability to operate factories in signatory countries.
Straight to the source at Terra Daily, Agence France-Presse, 18 Nov 2004
Hi Joan, I don’t know if you still remember or not, but I found my way from Jason’s blog, which I found from Greg Tan’s which I discovered at Kenneth Hsieh’s birthday… etc etc. ^_^
I read your whole blog in an hour or so. Very interesting, you write much better than I do ^_~
But I’d have to say I much MUCH prefer http://www.livejournal.com this is a bit too simple for my liking!
Anyway, have fun the rest of the holidays just thought I’d pop by and say hi…
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