Aussies: Kyoto should have been ratified
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Australia should have ratified the Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gas emissions years ago instead of becoming isolated on the issue along with the United States, two former Cabinet officials said.
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The Kyoto Protocol goes into effect. But without the participation of the United States, it's not very effective. Compiled by Tony Long.
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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.
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REYKJAVIK, ICELAND - Canadian scientists at an international symposium on climate change say a new report shows the Kyoto Protocol agreement on limiting fossil fuel emissions is not enough to slow the potentially disastrous warming of the planet.
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Environment Minister Ian Campbell has defended Australia&#039;s place at the head of a new international climate change body despite its refusal to sign the Kyoto agreement.
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Russiaâs signing of the Kyoto Protocol, bringing the global climate change agreement into force, was today hailed as a âreal step forwardâ by Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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The Russian government has approved the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, which sets formal targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, and sent it to the country&#39;s parliament for ratification.
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"The risk of the global economy taking a downward turn is increasing"  The United States, China and India must be part of the follow-up treaty to the Kyoto Protocol and agree to cut carbon emissions, Denmark's prime minister said Saturday. Japan's leader offered them a bold strategy for doing it.Climate change returned to the fore at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting, where Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda proposed a 2020 deadline for countries to boost their energy efficiency by 30 percent. He added that Japan would try to spread its high-quality environmental technology around the world. Read more
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Asia-Pacific leaders agreed on Saturday  to adopt a &quot;long-term aspirational goal&quot; to reduce greenhouse  gas emissions, Australian Prime Minister John Howard said.
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The world&#39;s two biggest polluters, the US and China, will have an unprecedented chance to thrash out action on climate change at an upcoming summit in Australia, Prime Minister John Howard said Sunday.
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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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Delegates from more than 190 countries have gathered in Argentina to celebrate the enactment of the Kyoto Protocol.
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BUENOS AIRES: Pakistan has ratified the Kyoto Protocol on Climatic Change, Environment Minister Malik Khan said on Thursday. He said that Islamabad has notified UN authorities of ratification, which formally comes into effect in February 2005.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard Sunday stared down reports his own environment minister had urged him to reverse government policy and sign the Kyoto Protocol ahead of next month's election.
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Australian PM John Howard puts climate change top of the agenda at a summit of Asia-Pacific leaders.
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The Russian government agreed to sign the Kyoto treaty, meaning the global climate accord probably will enter into force next year, irrespective of opposition from the US, the world&#39;s biggest polluter.
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The Russian government approved the Kyoto Protocol Thursday, giving decisive support to the long-delayed climate change treaty that should allow it to come into force worldwide.