THE US appears to have gone back on its pledge to tackle global warming by
limiting greenhouse gases. President George W. Bush said last week that he
opposes controlling carbon emissions from power plants. But rather than kill off
the faltering Kyoto Protocol, the decision may force the rest of the world to go
it alone and seal an agreement without American cooperation.
The protocol, agreed in 1997, commits industrial countries to cutting
greenhouse gas emissions by 5.2 per cent from 1990 levels by 2012. But the
world’s nations failed to agree on how to achieve this when they met in…
