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| Wednesday, 8 December 2004 |
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US, China, India urged to sign Kyoto treaty BUENOS AIRES, Tuesday (AFP) Participants at a UN-sponsored environmental meeting here Monday lamented the failure by the United States, China and other key countries to sign the Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gases. The delegates at the meeting said the groundbreaking global treaty will be diminished without their support. The Kyoto accords, the world's most ambitious and complex environmental treaty, legally commit 39 industrial nations and territories, including Japan and Europe, to trim their output of six "greenhouse" gases - especially carbon dioxide - by at least 5.2 percent by 2012, compared with 1990 levels. Russian President Vladimir Putin last month signed a bill confirming his nation's ratification of the protocol, giving the global climate pact the final stamp of approval needed to allow it to come into force on February 16. But the list of signatories to the international pact does not include the United States, China and India - all major culprits for the worldwide rise in greenhouse gas emissions. Delegates from 150 countries, along with 6,000 representatives from government, industry and non-profit groups, were in Buenos Aires for the UN-sponsored climate change conference, which runs through December 17. |
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