U.S. Global-emissions Proposal Criticized
21 November 2000 - 1:00pm
Environmentalists at U.N. Climate Conference say U.S. offer to existing forests and armland to meet their targets to reduce greenhouse gasemissions as "cheating."
"The United States presented a new proposal Monday on how countries could use existing forests and farmland to meet their targets to reduce "greenhouse gas" emissions. But environmentalists at a U.N. Climate Conference immediately denounced the offer as 'cheating.' The conference, now in its second and final week, is supposed to lay down the rules for implementing emissions cuts agreed upon in the Kyoto Protocol three years ago in Japan. "
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U.S. global-emissions proposal is criticized
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Orange County Register, November 21, 2000
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