- while colin powell, george w. bushs designated scapegoat, was greeted with indignant banners and boos at the wssd, russias prime minister mikhail kasyanov was greeted with cheers and wild applause when he announced, russia has signed the kyoto protocol and we are now preparing its ratification
(Earth Island Institute).
- saudi arabia announced that it had approved the kyoto protocol, the treaty on climate change which president bush has been trying to kill (World News).
- citigroup and the world bank are the largest financiers of global warming and deforestation projects, and president bushs environmental policies are ridiculed around the world (Rainforest Action Network).
- however, in spite of mounting scientific evidence, president bush has insisted that substantial questions remain as to the causes and effects of global climate change (League of Conservation Voters).
- vice president cheney's infamous ''energy task force'' advised lobbyists for polluters early in the new administration that there would be no action by the bush white house on global warming and then asked for their help in designing a totally meaningless ''voluntary'' program
(Earth Island Institute).
- fortunately their call will likely get a chilly response from president bush, who reiterated through a spokesman last weekend that he continues to oppose the international global warming treaty known as the kyoto protocol (Canada Free Press).
- president bush gets the global warming report he commissioned just days before he meets with european leaders
(Science News).
- president george w. bush rejected kyoto in early 2001 in favor of voluntary incentives to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases contributing to global climate change (World Watch Institute).
- 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).
- beer said there was no political agenda linked to the project, which comes as president bush is under international pressure to rejoin efforts laid out in the kyoto protocol to fight climate change by cutting greenhouse gases
(Environmental News Network).
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