Declare Victory and Move On?

November 29th, 2004

Posted by: Roger Pielke, Jr.

The Kyoto Protocol is going to come into force. Yet many countries are failing to meet their emissions reductions targets. Thus, isn’t it a bit premature to be talking about Kyoto in the past tense?

“I don’t want to water it down but (Kyoto targets) were the low-hanging fruits,” Klaus Toepfer, head of the U.N. Environment Programme in a Reuters news story.

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