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You can google it either way. Here is a recent story.
US rejects possibility of signing Kyoto protocol
October 25 2002
The United States has firmly rejected signing the Kyoto protocol on global warming, saying the damage the treaty would cause to its economy would also hurt developing countries.
"It will have the impact of doing significant harm to our economy. We will not sign an agreement just to say that we signed it," Harlan Watson, the senior US climate change negotiator, said on the sidelines of a UN conference in India on global warming yesterda.
"There is a very tight linkage between growth in the developed world and the developing world. Every time the US economy is depressed, our imports are also depressed," Watson told reporters.
Under the 1997 Kyoto agreement, rich industrialised countries would be committed to reduce emissions of six greenhouse gases by a timeframe of 2008-2012.
Kyoto is likely to go into effect next year if it is ratified by Russia. The treaty needs to be signed by countries that accounted for 55 per cent of carbon dioxide emissions in 1990.
US President George W Bush, who leads the world's largest polluter, walked away from the pact after he took office last year, sparking widespread criticism.
smh.com.au
Here is the other version
United States Signs Kyoto Protocol
On November 12, Peter Burleigh, the acting U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, signed the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. Before that date, every major developed nation had signed the treaty except the United States. The signing is seen as a purely symbolic gesture on the part of the White House due to widespread opposition of the protocol in Congress and ratification of the treaty by the Senate, as it stands now, is seen as a pipe dream.
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