Kyoto protocol??
im sooooo annoyed rite now...ughh
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BFD. Australia and the US are the only industrialized nations not to sign it. Canada signed it and their greenhouse gas emissions rose at twice the rate of the US.
What is signing a piece of paper going to do???
The US NEEDS TO SIGN IT! If it does the rest of the world will have more pressure to follow. Right now a country can say "The US didn't sign it, why should we?" Also, it will hopefully be the start of signing a lot of environmental protection agreements.
Hey Matt, didn't you know that the US was the only country who refused to sign?
Long term economic depression with no effect on global warming. Sounds like fun huh?
Something like what has happened in Europe:
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/green/sto...
A separate report by Open Europe, in July 2006, found that UK oil companies were also poised to make a lot of free money: £10.2m for Esso; £17.9m for BP; and £20.7m for Shell. And behind this profiteering, the environmental reality was that these major producers of carbon emissions were under no pressure from the scheme to cut emissions.
At the other end of this EU market, smaller organisations like UK hospitals and 18 universities, who had been given far fewer EUAs, were forced to go out and buy them - while the price was still high. So, for example, the University of Manchester spent £92,500 on EUAs. Now that the truth about the glut has been revealed, the university would be doing well if it managed to get £1,000 for the lot of them.
While this EU market has failed to make any serious impact on climate change, the UN's Clean Development Mechanism has done little better. In contrast to the EU system, which sells permits to produce supposedly limited quantities of greenhouse gases, the CDM sets up projects which are supposed to reduce the quantity of greenhouse gases and then sells carbon credits which allow buyers to emit more gases.
And this is in heavily regulated Europe. We DO NOT need this level of corruption while possibly INCREASING the environmental damage here.
Wake up, sheeple!
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