Re: Fwd: News: Kyoto Oh No

[Chris Burford <cburford@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:41 28/03/01 -0800, you wrote:
> from SLATE:
> > The [Washington POST] fronts a report carried inside elsewhere that
> > [U.S.] EPA  administrator Christine Todd Whitman told reporters yesterday
> > that the Kyoto protocol for emission reduction--signed by the U.S. but
> > not ratified--is (in the paper's words) "dead as far
> > as the administration was concerned." ....The paper foresees a stunned
> > reaction from European Union officials.

BBC commentary:

"
The Swedish Government, which currently holds the European Union
presidency, described the move as appalling and provocative, while the
environmental group Friends of the Earth said it threatened "climate disaster".

Sweden's Environment Minister, Kjell Larssen, told the BBC that the new US
administration seemed to be preparing to withdraw from the global
community's effort to deal with a major threat to the future of the world."

The provocative nature of the new US administration seems to be becoming a
feature.

It might help the emergence of a group of states not so tactily opposed to
US hegemonism.

Chris Burford



Chris Burford
London