SHOULD we wait until George W. Bush has left the White House before we think about what to do when the Kyoto protocol expires in 2012, or should we start negotiations about cuts in greenhouse emissions now? While participants at last week’s UN climate negotiations in Nairobi, Kenya, dithered over such questions, Masai representatives and other African groups protested that not enough is being done to protect their continent against climate change.
The 174 governments at the conference failed to set a timetable for negotiating post-Kyoto targets, perpetuating an uncertainty that may undermine confidence in markets for carbon credits and…
