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To: jayreynolds who wrote (5993)	3/5/2001 11:33:01 AM
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Movement on Kyoto in Italy TRIESTE, Italy (AP) _ Environment ministers from the world's seven most industrialized countries plus Russia on Sunday renewed their commitment to fight global warming and vowed they will ``strive to reach an agreement'' over gas emission reductions. The outcome of Trieste's G-8 meeting was welcomed by environmental groups. ``Trieste was not the place to reopen the negotiating table, but we sent out a strong political message and we found common ground for dialogue,'' said Willer Bordon, the Italian environment minister and host of the meeting. American and European environmental officials have been at odds over the implementation of the 1997 Kyoto accord that calls for gas emission cuts to reduce global warming __ a crucial environmental issue which topped the agenda at the Trieste meeting. Gas emissions, trapping heat inside Earth's atmosphere, are widely blamed for rising temperatures that have shrunk glaciers, caused sea levels to rise, and hurt plant and animal life. The emissions mostly come from burning fossil fuels for factories, power plants and cars, with carbon dioxide a major component. A conference in The Hague last year failed to reach an accord. The key issue blocking the agreement was whether and to what extent countries should be allowed to count carbon dioxide absorbed by forests and farmlands toward their emissions reduction targets. The United States supports such credits, while the European Union opposes them. ``We commit ourselves ... to strive to reach an agreement on outstanding political issues and to ensure in a cost-effective manner the environmental integrity of the Kyoto protocol,'' the final document by G-8 countries said Sunday. Negotiations will resume at a conference scheduled in July in Bonn. Christie Whitman, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief, said Saturday that the United States was reviewing its global warming policy. Canadian Minister David Anderson welcomed the U.S. decision and said that ``it is important for all the others to follow suit.'' ``We cannot simply go back to where we were at The Hague. We tried that approach and we failed,'' he said. The environmental group Greenpeace said the outcome of the meeting was ``the best that could be done at this stage.'' ``From here, it seems that the rest of G-8 has given the clear signal that while they're willing to wait for the Bush administration to speed up on the issue, they are not willing to wait very long,'' said Steve Sawyer, a spokesman for Greenpeace Climate Campaign. ``But an agreement that includes the United States is better than one that doesn't.'' The World Wildlife Fund said in a statement that ``G-8 partners have sent a very clear message that the only feasible option for (U.S. President George W.) Bush is to accept the Kyoto protocol as written.'' Represented at Trieste's three-day meeting were the United States, Italy, Canada, Germany, France, Japan, Britain and Russia as well as the European Commission, the political arm of the European Union. Whitman, along with some other heads of delegations, left Sunday morning. She said that her departure had to be moved up because of a snow storm approaching Washington.