Martin says many countries missing Kyoto targets but may catch up later
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TOKYO (CP) - Prime Minister Paul Martin says many countries besides Canada are well behind in meeting the commitments of the Kyoto protocol on greenhouse gas emissions, but suggested they can still catch up by using the longest possible timelines provided in the accord.
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Canadian legislators tentatively urged the Conservative government on Wednesday to stick to emissions targets laid out by the Kyoto protocol on global warming -- targets that Ottawa says cannot be met.
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UK targets to cut greenhouse gases are now unlikely to be met, the government is expected to admit.
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Environmental experts Friday welcomed a hint of a softening in U.S. skepticism about global warming but saw little chance President Bush might rejoin international efforts to cap greenhouse gases.
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Europe, Japan, US, and developing nations are divided over how to handle greenhouse-gas emissions.
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The backlash against carbon offsetting could whip away funds from some key projects in Asia and Africa.
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More than 100 nations struggled yesterday to strike a balance between what rich and poor countries must do to cut greenhouse gas emissions and slow global warming.
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Despite a positive mood at international talks on climate change, key nations were still dragging their feet.
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OTTAWA-Paul Martin may head a minority government, but that's not stopping him from travelling the world this fall.
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Leaders of 21 Pacific Rim nations, including the U.S. and China, agreed on Saturday to a âlong-term aspirational goalâ of reducing greenhouse gas emissions â but without binding targets.
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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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Japan will push for a year after 1990 to be used as the reference point for greenhouse emission cuts in a post-Kyoto deal as chair of the G8 summit in July, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said Saturday.
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Britain is in danger of missing its target of cutting carbon dioxide emissions by 20 percent by the end of the decade, Environment Secretary Margaret Beckett said Wednesday.
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The Bush administration has made a "significant" shift on global warming, but still falls short on the "much more aggressive" policies needed to head off its damaging impact, the U.N. climate chief said Saturday.
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European and Asian leaders pledged Monday to set new carbon dioxide emissions targets that go beyond those now set for 2012 under the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol. But they set no firm targets now, bowing to Asian reluctance to do so.
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More than 100 nations struggled Monday to strike a balance between what rich and poor countries must do to cut greenhouse gas emissions and slow global warming.
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Leaders from the world's eight major industrialized nations "accepted the latest scientific evidence" of the dangers of global warming Thursday but set no targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.