- the japanese prime minister, junichiro koizumi, arrives in london today after a summit meeting with the us president, george bush, in which the two failed to make any clear progress in saving the kyoto global warming treaty
(Independent (UK)).
- 2004 mondays release of a major new report by an international team of more than 300 scientists on the potentially catastrophic warming of the worlds arctic region has spurred new appeals by independent experts and environmental experts for president george w. bush to reconsider his opposition to the kyoto protocol and other mechanisms to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases
(Oneworld.net).
- finally, the ad highlights president george w. bushs contributions to global warming that have resulted from his rolling back of environmental laws to increase corporate profits
(Rainforest Action Network).
- world agreement on how to tackle global warming was in tatters last night after the us president, george bush, let it be known that america would not implement the kyoto treaty on climate change
(Independent (UK)).
- president bush sought to allay european fears about his commitment to the environment yesterday, offering us support to a series of studies and joint ventures to help combat global warming
(Independent (UK)).
- announced it wouldn't ratify the treaty, environmental protection agency administrator christie whitman said the reason president bush wouldn't back the kyoto protocol was not that he didn't care about global warming, but that he simply wasn't interested in a treaty that congress was unlikely to ratify
(CBC Newsworld).
- often considered george w. bushs best friend on the international stage, british prime minister tony blair has been taking positions on climate change that are 180 degrees opposed to those of his transatlantic pal going so far as to urge the us to ratify the kyoto protocol, despite bushs steadfast opposition to the climate change agreement
(Earth Island Institute).
- it is accepted wisdom to view the re-election of george w bush as a black day for the environment - and so it was, if ratification of the kyoto agreement on climate change or the reining in of american oil-guzzling lifestyles are your criteria
(New Statesman).
- 2001: hopes that president george bush would have a last-minute change of heart and endorse the kyoto global warming treaty were buried last night when the eu-us summit ended in stalemate
(Guardian).
- first and foremost, president bush got us out of that disastrous global warming treaty negotiated by the clinton administration known as the kyoto protocol (search)
(Canada Free Press).
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