Diplomats Debate Future of Kyoto Treaty
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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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Delegates from the world's top polluting nations are meeting in Washington to discuss tackling climate change.
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&#39;As negotiators in the capital of Argentina hammer out the next stage of the The Kyoto Protocol climate treaty, two important questions remain unanswered: whether the Kyoto signatories can find a compromise to bring the United States back into the
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A breakthrough on the climate change deadlock is being sought at a meeting between US politicians and international legislators.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- The United States is the big odd man out as diplomats, scientists, and environmentalists from more than 190 countries gather here at the 10th meeting of the United Nations' Convention on Climate Change. The convention's Kyoto Protocol, with its mandatory reduction of &quot;greenhouse gases&quot; that cause global warming, goes into force next year. Discussions of new ...
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On Thursday, as news was leaking out that Russia was likely to ratify the Kyoto global warming treaty, a group of US business executives was discussing climate policy as they lunched on chicken and avocado sandwiches in Washington&#39;s St.
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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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Ten years after Kyoto, nations are wrestling once again over climate change. But big questions remain to be answered
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Intensive diplomatic efforts to agree the elements of a framework by the end of the year for a new global climate change treaty are starting to make headway, according to a European official close to the ...Comment
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - The European Union and  the United States struggled to break a deadlock on the last day  of a U.N. climate-change meeting on Friday, but Washington  resisted Europe's interest in steps to fight global warming  after the international Kyoto pact ends in 2012.
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The Bush administration contends that the long-term benefit from the Kyoto climate treaty won't be worth the immediate economic cost.
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Over 1500 experts and politicians from 189 countries discuss global warming scenario after Russia ratified the Kyoto Protocol. Bush is the main target of delegates for his anti-ecological policy.
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Climate experts and politicians are discussing policies to extend the Kyoto Protocol and tackle global warming. The Protocol was established in 1997 and sets targets for industrialised countries to cut their
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BERLIN - Europeans welcomed Russia's move toward ratifying the Kyoto Protocol, but environmentalists cautioned that the accord, rejected by the United States, can only be a "first step" toward negotiating deeper cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.    Russia's Cabinet on Thursday endorsed the 1997 agreement and parliament is expected to ratify the document by the end of the year...
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PARIS, Oct 22  - The Kyoto Protocol for tackling global warming is at last poised to take effect -- but it will have to struggle along without the country which is the biggest source of the problem: the United States.
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Delegates at the U.N. climate conference extended closed-door talks into an extra day Saturday, nearing resolution of a dispute over how far future negotiations should go in trying to cut emissions of greenhouse gases.
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Negotiators worked through the final day of a two-week U.N. conference Friday in search of a way to bring the United States back into long-term talks on controlling global warming. A key European official saw a "50-50" chance of compromise.