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<p><a href="http://www.cop3.org/"><font size="2"><b>Kyoto protocol</b></font></a></p>
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U.S. Withdraws From Kyoto Protocol</font>
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<b>Europe Forging Ahead With Work On Global Warming<br>
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Greenpeace Urges U.S. Businesses To Reject Bush Reversal On Global Warming</b></font>
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<p>Almost immediately after he declared his administration would not require
industry to reduce carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) emissions, President Bush
delivered another blow to the world's climate by refusing to support the global
warming treaty known as the Kyoto Protocol.</p>
<p>This treaty, negotiated by more than 100 countries over a decade, calls for
the 38 largest industrial nations to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases
by 2012 to 5.2 percent below the levels in 1990. President Bush has stated that
conforming with the accord is not in U.S. interests.</p>
<p>"U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol in an extreme disappointment. U.S.
action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is essential to international efforts
to prevent dangerous global warming. Nevertheless, the treaty will be beneficial
and start the world moving in the right direction," said Kert Davies, Director
of Greenpeace's U.S. Global Warming Campaign. "President Bush is wrong when he
says reducing greenhouse gas emissions will hurt the U.S. economy. Bush ignores
the economic benefits of U.S. leadership on 21st century energy technology,"
Davies continued. </p>
<p>Global opposition to the U.S. position is mounting, with strong statements
from the European Union,
<a href="http://international-calling.us/dir/Japan.html">Japan</a>,
<a href="http://international-calling.us/dir/Brazil.html">Brazil</a>,
<a href="http://international-calling.us/dir/Russia.html">Russia</a> and
<a href="http://international-calling.us/dir/New_Zealand.html">New Zealand</a> indicating their
willingness to move on without the U.S. "Conscious nations must move forward on
the global warming treaty with or without the U.S. Clearly, the Bush
Administration is a negative influence on the international agreement at this
point and they are getting that message from governments and people of the
world," said John Passacantando, Executive Director of Greenpeace. </p>
<p>Greenpeace has called on leaders of the Fortune 100 companies to declare
their opposition to President Bush's rejection of the Kyoto Protocol or face the
consequences from concerned consumers, institutions and organizations around the
world. </p>
<p>In a letter which gives them one week to respond, CEOs of Exxon/Mobil,
General Motors, Ford Motor Company, Enron, Texaco, and others, are asked
specifically if these corporations will support Bush's rejection of the global
warming treaty. The letter also asks if these companies will support or oppose
the efforts of other countries to bring the Kyoto Protocol into force without
U.S. participation.</p>
<p>Activists protested Bush's withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol outside the
American Society of Newspaper Editors meeting in Washington today. President
Bush's motorcade passed the activists waving banners that read "Protect The
Planet, Not Polluters" and "Bush: Polluter Of The Free World" as he made his way
into the meeting. "President Bush has completely broken his trust with the
American people simply to pay back his oil industry campaign contributors. It is
time to determine just which companies will choose to go down with Bush and
suffer the global outrage for undermining efforts to stop global warming," said
Passacantando. "Greenpeace aims to help citizens around the world find out whose
side these companies are on." </p>
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