Kyoto treaty becomes global law, flaws and all
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The Kyoto Protocol on curbing global warming has been in limbo since 2001, when the United States rejected it outright, for valid reasons.
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LONDON, Sep 29  (IPS) - The Russian move to ratify the Kyoto Protocol is  set to bring a major change to industrial economies across the  developed world.
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A group of global lawmakers signed a resolution Thursday urging a new agreement limiting greenhouse gas emissions by 2009 to succeed the Kyoto protocol, which is set to expire in 2012.Comment
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The Russian government approved the  Kyoto Protocol on Thursday, giving decisive support to the  long-delayed climate change treaty that should allow it to come  into force worldwide.
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Russia&#39;s Cabinet approved the worldwide Kyoto Protocol on global warming yesterday, clearing the way for implementation of the long-delayed United Nations pact.
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Description: Countries that signed the Kyoto Protocol meet this week in Buenos Aeries. Despite little progress on Global Warming, the countries have passed the protocol and it becomes law this February.
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The Kyoto Protocol overcame its final legislative hurdle in Russia when the upper house of parliament ratified the global climate pact Wednesday and sent it on to President Vladimir Putin for his signature &#151; setting the stage for the treaty to come into force next year.
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Russia&#39;s permanent representative to the United Nations, Andrey Denisov, left, shakes hands with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan while Kenyan Nobel Peace prize winner Wangari Maathai, right, look on after they signed the Kyoto Protocol on global warming.
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Europe, Japan, US, and developing nations are divided over how to handle greenhouse-gas emissions.
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Russia yesterday handed over its official ratification documents of the Kyoto Protocol to reduce world-wide greenhouse gas emissions to the secretary general of the United Nation, Kofi Annan.
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The major parties&#39; different approaches to the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions became starker today after Russia made steps to ratify the agreement.
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DAVID HARDAKER: Nearly seven years after it was first proposed, the Kyoto Protocol on climate change has now been given the green light - courtesy of the Russian Government.
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Russia&#39;s president has signed the Kyoto Protocol ensuring the global climate pact will take effect, Novosti reported Friday. Putin had delayed signing the treaty until he gained
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The Kyoto Protocol is by no means a &quot;mostly symbolic treaty,&quot; as a Nov. 6 editorial called it. If all countries -- including the United States -- lived up to the clean-air commitments negotiated in Kyoto, their
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Two months from now comes a landmark day in planetary history: the Kyoto Protocol finally comes into legal force on 16 February 2005.
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Steam and smoke rise from cooling towers on the outskirts of Moscow, Friday, Oct. 22, 2004. Russia&#39;s lower house of parliament ratified the Kyoto Protocol on global warming Friday, moving the sweeping environmental
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The Kyoto Protocol, which requires 35 nations to cut their greenhouse gas emissions, takes effect on Wednesday amid worries about its fairness.