11.16.2006
US Rejects Annan Call to Reduce Geenhouse Gases (Reuters.com)
Wed Nov 15, 2006 9:05am ET
NAIROBI (Reuters) - The United States rejected on Wednesday a plea by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to cut emissions of greenhouse gases and to join the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol on fighting global warming.
"We think that the United States has been leading in terms of its ground-breaking initiatives," Paula Dobriansky, Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs, told a news conference during November 6-17 U.N. talks on combating global warming.
Earlier, Annan told environment ministers from 70 nations that there was a "shocking lack of leadership" in cutting emissions. He also said: "I think it would be preferable if they (the United States) signed the Kyoto agreement."
Dobriansky said that the United States was sticking to its goal of braking, rather than capping, the rise in emissions and investing heavily in new technologies to fight global warming.
"We seek to slow, reverse and to really curb emissions," she said.
President George W. Bush pulled out of Kyoto in 2001, saying that caps on emissions of greenhouse gases would cost U.S. jobs and wrongly excluded developing nations from targets for 2012.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - The United States rejected on Wednesday a plea by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to cut emissions of greenhouse gases and to join the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol on fighting global warming.
"We think that the United States has been leading in terms of its ground-breaking initiatives," Paula Dobriansky, Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs, told a news conference during November 6-17 U.N. talks on combating global warming.
Earlier, Annan told environment ministers from 70 nations that there was a "shocking lack of leadership" in cutting emissions. He also said: "I think it would be preferable if they (the United States) signed the Kyoto agreement."
Dobriansky said that the United States was sticking to its goal of braking, rather than capping, the rise in emissions and investing heavily in new technologies to fight global warming.
"We seek to slow, reverse and to really curb emissions," she said.
President George W. Bush pulled out of Kyoto in 2001, saying that caps on emissions of greenhouse gases would cost U.S. jobs and wrongly excluded developing nations from targets for 2012.
(More ... Reuters > News > U.S. > Article)
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