THE KYOTO PROTOCOL JUST A LOT OF HOT AIR? From: Environmental Health Perspectives | Date: August 1, 2000| Author: Schmidt, Charles W. | COPYRIGHT 2000 National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. 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

The Kyoto Protocol on global warming is struggling to survive in a political climate hotter than the global climate it was intended to cool. Three years after being negotiated by 150 countries in Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997, this first attempt to set internationally binding limits on greenhouse gas emissions is about as far from its goal as it was the day it was conceived. Only 24 countries--all of them in the developing world--have ratified the protocol so far, excluding all th...

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