News of this week’s climate change conference is that George Bush wants countries to be able to determine their own limits of carbon emission reductions. Sure…have the fox guard the hen house.
I think at this point that he’s got to be given credit for staying his course, yet even he knows the course is going nowhere with an american election in sights. At least he is no longer denying that carbon emissions and climate change are an issue and he’s calling for Kyoto replacement.
It amazes me how leaders get together, agree on a protocol, then opt out because the wind has changed politically in their countries. What use is the protocol some might say? Well if a few of those who signed it hold to it, then it had some use. It keeps the agenda moving along. And as the bar is raised, those who bucked the trend are forced to join it.
Sass