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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (2343)	4/10/2001 2:47:49 PM
From: Mephisto	Respond to of 93284

Kenneth, have you heard that EU might renegotiate Kyoto protocol with US because the global warming problem is so serious? Following is an excerpt that I picked up over the weekend. - MEPHISTO " The Kyoto protocol, which calls on industrialized nations to reduce their emissions of so-called greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide, was agreed in 1997 and is scheduled to come into force in 2002. But late last month, President Bush said the treaty was not in the best interests of the United States. ``In our opinion it would be a tragic mistake to tear the agreement to pieces and start over again. We lose time and all of us become losers,'' Goran Persson, the prime minister of Sweden which holds the rotating EU presidency, and EU Commission President Romano Prodi wrote in a joint newspaper column. ``If certain parts of the agreement prevent the United States from ratifying it, we should negotiate about those parts rather than bury the entire agreement,'' Persson and Prodi said in the Swedish regional daily newspaper Goteborgs-Posten. Japan's Kyodo news agency reported on Saturday that the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage was considering a U.S. substitute plan for the Kyoto treaty which would involve developing and industrialized nations, to be revealed in July. The two European leaders reiterated that the EU, a bloc of 15 west European countries, would ratify the Kyoto protocol with or without the United States. Prodi said on Thursday in an article in Britain's Independent newspaper: ``We in the EU do not see a solution to the climate problem outside the Kyoto protocol.'' He and Persson said in the Swedish newspaper that it was ''regrettable and serious'' that Washington no longer considered the accord worthy of discussion. ``The climate is already changing. The poorest countries have been hit the hardest by the effects of climate change and they are the most vulnerable to further changes,'' they said. ``More rain will fall in areas already suffering from floods. Less rain will fall in areas already suffering from droughts. Supplies of food and water will be put at risk. A rise in the level of the oceans by half a meter would hit hundreds of millions of people in lowland coastal regions, primarily in poor countries,'' they said. It was the responsibility of industrialized countries, which produce most of the global greenhouse gas pollution, to take the lead to reduce emissions, Persson and Prodi said. The richest fifth of the world's population was behind 60 percent of all greenhouse gases, they said, adding that the United States produced a quarter of the planet's carbon dioxide emissions. ``The longer we wait, the more difficult and the more expensive it will become. All talk of sustainable development and of transformation to an ecologically sustainable society will be empty words unless we are willing to take our responsibility without delay,'' they said. dailynews.yahoo.com