US Firmly Anti-Kyoto as UN Climate Talks Start
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The United States showed no signs of budging in its opposition to the Kyoto protocol on Monday as UN climate change talks began, a month after President
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By DAVID STRINGER LONDON - The United States is preparing to reject new targets on climate change at a Group of Eight summit next month, dashing German and British hopes for a new global pact on carbon emissions, according to a document released by environmentalists.
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The United States and European Union stepped back from confrontation Friday as global talks on climate change headed into extra time amid hopes they could still thrash out a compromise.
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UNITED NATIONS -- When U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon first approached President Bush at the White House in January to muster support for a U.N. climate-change initiative, the president's response was cool: An impatient Bush reminded Ban that he did not want to restrain U.S. industries, and t...
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - The United States  showed no signs of budging in its opposition to the Kyoto  protocol Monday as U.N. climate change talks began, a month  after President Bush's reelection and Russia's ratification of  the agreement.
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President Bush is holding fast to his rejection of mandatory curbs on greenhouse gases that are blamed for global warming, despite a fresh report from 300 scientists in the United States and seven other nations that shows Arctic temperatures are rising.
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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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Russia&#39;s Cabinet approved the Kyoto Protocol yesterday in a crucial step toward putting the long-delayed climate-change treaty into effect, although without participation by the United States.
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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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The United States is preparing to reject new targets on climate change at a Group of Eight summit next month, dashing German and British hopes for a new global pact on carbon emissions, according to comments on a document released by the environmental group Greenpeace.
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The Kyoto Protocol that aims to slow down global warming takes effect but the US remains outside it.
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BUENOS AIRES, Dec 16  - Europe and the United States clashed Thursday at the UN climate change conference on the measures that must be taken to reduce harmful greenhouse gases.
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The United States pushed forward with its own agenda on climate change Friday despite criticism that Washington is attempting to undermine the global effort led by the United Nations.
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The United States and Europe are working together to tackle global warming, the chief U.S. climate negotiator said Wednesday, deflecting growing criticism within the EU and the developing world over Washington's perceived go-it-alone stance.
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The United States stood firm in rejecting the Kyoto Protocol on global warming despite renewed pressure to yield after Russia ended years of hesitation by moving to ratify the treaty.
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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 over the opposition of the US, the world&#39;s biggest polluter.
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After seven politically painful years, the Kyoto Protocol finally enters into force on Wednesday, reining in industrial emissions of carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse gases" in a first attempt to control climate change.