G-8 environment ministers skirt Kyoto Protocol

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G-8 environment ministers skirt Kyoto Protocol

Monday, April 28, 2003 at 07:00 JST PARIS - Environment ministers from the Group of Eight (G-8) major nations issued a joint communique Sunday without touching on the thorny issue of their commitment to early implementation of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on global warming after their three-day talks.

The United States apparently pressed its G-8 partners - Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Russia - to skirt the issue due to its objection to the protocol, which Washington has already opted to stay out of, observers said. (Kyodo News)

Hi,

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But apparently '[...] made an unspecified pledge to 'reduce greenhouse gas emissions' to help achieve 'the ultimate objective' of Kyoto's parent treaty, the United Nations' Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). [...]' [source http://www.terradaily.com/2003/ 030427112109.4a112161.html]

US is at least party to UNFCCC, although in non-compliance (nice contrast there, several single States are actually producing encouraging efforts towards climate mitigation while the federal government keeps ditching the issue). I wonder how things will be when the Kyoto Protocol will have entered into force (if it will, as I do hope), and how they will manage to 'skirt it' in such meetings.

thanks ciao

Since when do France, Germany and Russia do things because the US tells them to?

Matt