Laptop Battery TOKYO, Japan -- A high level delegation from the European Union
has failed to win unequivocal Japanese and Australian support for
ratification of the Kyoto Protocol without U.S. involvement.
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Thinkpad From July 16 to 27 in Bonn, Germany, some 180 countries will
attempt to finalize rules for implementing the Kyoto Protocol, an
international agreement to limit the emission by industrialized
nations of six greenhouse gases linked to global warming.
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Laptop Computers Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi told the European
leaders today that Japan "would have problems reaching a deal in
Bonn without U.S. involvement."
Not everyone supports the Kyoto Protocol. Both the U.S., a major greenhouse gas emitter, and Australia did not sign the Kyoto ratification. Both nations feel their economies would be disadvantaged by competing with developing nations who are not included in the Protocol. China, 2 greenhouse gasbag, along with the burgeoning economy of India are exempted from Kyoto Protocol requirements.
Laptop Computer The European Union High Level Mission led by EU chief climate
change negotiator, Belgian Sustainable Development Minister,
Olivier Deleuze, and Environment Commissioner, Margot Wallstrom, is
gathering support for ratification of the 1997 Kyoto agreement.
When the Bush administration withdrew US support for the Kyoto Protocol in March, the ICC was clearly relieved and threw off its green mask. On its website it advertised a new climate initiative from the United States Council for International Business (USCIB), the US affiliate of the ICC. Welcoming the Bush decision, USCIB called for an alternative to the Kyoto Protocol that would avoid its "unrealistic targets, timetables and lack of developing country participation."[24]
Desktop Computer A spokesperson for Wallstrom said the situation is now
"critical."
Notebooks On a positive note, the Commission said Japan reiterated its
intention to ratify the protocol by 2002, though officials did not
say whether this was conditional on U.S. involvement.
Lenovo After meeting with the European leaders last week in Sydney, the
Australian cabinet decided to participate in climate talks in Bonn,
but will not commit to ratifying the global warming agreement
without the United States.
Hard Drive At their meeting Friday with Australian Environment Minister
Senator Robert Hill, the EU leaders repeated the European
commitment to ratify the Kyoto Protocol by the year 2002, if
necessary without the United States. But Hill said Australia will
not do so.
Travelstar Under the Kyoto agreement, Australia would not have to cut
emissions below 1990 levels, but could increase them only by eight
percent. Japan would have to cut its emissions six percent below
1990 levels.
Gateway In view of the United States' abandonment of the Kyoto Protocol
in March, the Australian government will review its position on the
treaty, but said Monday the deal should not be ratified without the
United States. The cabinet review will not be completed in time for
the Bonn talks.
Laptop Parts Last week, the chairman of the Bonn talks, Dutch Environment
Minister Jan Pronk said he could accept a two-year postponement in
the start of the period for implementing the emissions cuts.
Software The protocol sets a five year time period, from 2008 to 2012,
for achieving the reduction, but Pronk told parliament that an
"option" would be to delay the start by two years, to 2010.
Hard Drives The European Union is gathering support for ratification of the
Kyoto agreement by the 38 countries governed by the agreement
immediately after the Bonn meeting, while giving the United States
the option to ratify at a later date.
Electronics In Australia, the EU delegation underlined that the Kyoto
Protocol represents the result of a 10 year international effort to
lay the foundation for an international regime to combat climate
change.
Canon Belgian Sustainable Development Minister Olivier Deleuze is
taking the lead in climate talks. "We feel that we are in a
situation of crucial urgency. We cannot accept that Parties [to the
UN climate change treaty] are gaining time by putting into question
the merits of the Kyoto Protocol," Deleuze said.
Desktop Pc "This is a matter of political will. We have heard that people
in Australia do worry about climate change and want action. We
cannot wait and see," said Wallstrom.
Desktop Computers The EU leaders warned that any effort to replace the Kyoto
Protocol would create serious legal and political problems.
Think Pad The EU representatives also met Laurie Brereton, member of the
Australian shadow cabinet, the Labor Party opposition to the ruling
Liberals. Brereton indicated support for an eventual ratification
of the Kyoto Protocol.
Repair The EU Mission had a constructive meeting with Australian NGO's
on the question on how to seek actions against climate change, the
Belgian Presidency said.
Data Recovery In a June 24 editorial in the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper, Margot
Wallstrom of Sweden the European Environment Commissioner wrote,
"Let's always remind ourselves: There is one partner with whom we
cannot negotiate - the climate itself."
Cisco "The overwhelming weight of scientific opinion confirms that
global warming is a major problem. The Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change recently concluded that its impact is likely to be
greater than previously feared," Wallstrom wrote, "Some
uncertainties remain about exactly how the process is working, but
we have more than enough evidence to convince us that swift action
is needed."
Keyboard The entry into force of the Protocol is linked to two conditions
- the ratification by 55 States and the coverage of at least 55
percent of carbon dioxide emissions of the industrialized countries
in 1990. Since the United States emits roughly 25 percent of the
world's greenhouse gases, most of the other industrialized
countries covered by the protocol would have to ratify before it
could enter into force.
Monitor By May 9, 34 countries had ratified the Protocol, including only
one country whose emissions are governed by the agreement.
Desktop The Kyoto Protocol aims to realize the objective of the 1992 UN
Framework Convention on Climate Change, "the stabilization of
greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that
would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate
system."
Infosys Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the dominant greenhouse gas for
industrialized countries, accounting for 85 percent of emissions in
1996. Fossil fuel combustion accounts for more than 90 percent of
all CO2 emission.
Refurbished Laptops The other greenhouse gases are methane (CH4, 10.5 percent), and
nitrous oxide (N2O, 6.5 percent). HFCs, PFCs and SF6 account for a
small share (about two percent) of total emissions in 1996 but have
risen sharply over the 1990-1996 period.
Wipro Because the six months rotating Presidency of the European Union
passed from Sweden to Belgium on July 1, Belgian Deleuze will chair
the European Union delegation at the upcoming climate negotiations.
He will fill that role in Bonn at the continuation of the 6th
Conference of the Parties (COP 6) to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change, and again at the 7th Conference of
Parties (COP 7) in Marrakech, Morocco in November.
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