Warm welcome: Russia ratifies Kyoto.(Kyoto Protocol) From: Harvard International Review | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: Wang, Huilin | COPYRIGHT 2005 Harvard International Relations Council, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

After refusing to endorse the treaty less than a year previous, Russian President Vladimir Putin ratified the Kyoto Protocol in late October 2004. This landmark gesture of progress in the battle against global pollution came two weeks after the Russian Parliament ratified it.

The global community was taken aback by the November 2004 authorization of the treaty, which both the United States and Russia had vocally criticized following US President George W. Bush's rejecti...

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