RADICAL alternatives to the current programme for limiting greenhouse gas emissions are on the table as negotiations begin on what should follow the Kyoto protocol when it expires in 2012. At the top of the agenda for the talks, the first round of which took place last week in Bonn, Germany, is whether the protocol should be extended with tougher targets and more countries signing up to them, or whether it would be better to tear it up and start afresh.
With the US still refusing to ratify Kyoto, the second option is looking the more attractive to some. Meanwhile,…
