Rich nations' greenhouse gases up
Reuters reports that despite the desire of the nations who ratified the Kyoto protocol, emissions for 2004 were up over previous years.Industrialized nations' emissions of greenhouse gases edged up to the highest level in more than a decade in 2004 despite curbs meant to fight global warming, data compiled by Reuters showed on Thursday. The figures, based on national submissions to the U.N. Climate Secretariat in Bonn, indicate many countries will have to do more to meet 2012 goals set by the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol for cutting emissions of gases from fossil fuels.So if the nations who did ratify Kyoto cannot curb the their own emissions, how can they expect the rest of the world to suffer their condescension on the issue?Emissions from 40 industrial nations climbed 1.6 percent overall to 17.8 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide -- mainly from power plants, factories and cars -- in 2004 from in 2003 even though oil prices were surging.
"We're not on track to solve climate change by any stretch of the imagination," said Alex Haxeltine, an expert at the University of East Anglia in England. Governments were doing little to plan for cuts in emissions beyond Kyoto, he added.
posted by Jim VAT @ 2:20 PM
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Yeah, consumers and the people do tend to take precedence over the environment. People'll start curbing emissions when they start breathing too much CO2.
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