[lit-ideas] US climate deal with Asia
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Lit-Ideas <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:28:03 -0400
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4723305.stm
US agrees climate deal with Asia
[photo] A layer of pollution haze hovers over Beijing, China
The US and five Asia-Pacific states have announced a surprise pact
to cut greenhouse gases which falls outside the Kyoto Protocol on
climate change.
China, India, South Korea, Japan and Australia and the US account
for nearly half of world greenhouse gas emissions.
The US-led initiative would tackle global warming with new
technology supplied to countries most in need.
Critics say the new compact undermines Kyoto and is likely to be
ineffective because it is non-binding.
'Superior' deal
The pact will allow signed-up countries to set their goals for
reducing greenhouse gas emissions individually, with no enforcement
mechanism.
The signatories argue it complements, rather than weakens, the 1997
Kyoto agreement, which imposes targets on industrialised countries
to cut their emissions.
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