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Another year; another ineffective climate conference

...followed the 1998 Kyoto meeting which produced the Kyoto Protocol. The Kyoto Protocol binds 52 industrialized countries, including...conference, an agreement was reached to extend the Kyoto Protocol to 2020 and to set a date of 2015 for the development...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/guest-columns/2012-12-26/another-year-anothe
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Episcopal church urges others to go 'green'

...The church is the perfect institution to lead the way, Bingham said. "If the Senate is not going to pass the Kyoto protocol, or if the government has difficulties with it," she said, referring to a greenhouse-gas reduction plan agreed...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/072800/chu_0728000003.shtml
Church
Warming and the woods

...to control global warming; trees and crops can have an effect by pulling carbon dioxide out of the air. The 1997 Kyoto protocol, an international agreement aimed at slowing global warming, envisioned nations getting credit for the carbon-cutting...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/080700/opi_0807000011.shtml
Opinion
An about-face on global warming

...believed responsible for warming the earth's atmosphere. Her comment alarmed the coal industry and opponents of the Kyoto protocol, the international agreement that sets targets for developed nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Four senators...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/031701/opi_0317010090.shtml
Opinion
Poll: Vast majority want global warming plan

...was fairly serious. European officials have warned the decision to pull out of the climate agreement, known as the Kyoto Protocol, could harm U.S. relations with the rest of the world. And Environmental Protection Agency administrator Christie...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/040201/nne_0402010030.shtml
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Senate Democrats open to new global warming plan

...Buchan said. Since denouncing the Kyoto protocol last month as a threat to long-term...conciliatory statements suggest, the Kyoto protocol never enjoyed much support in...in unilaterally abandoning the Kyoto protocol without offering a realistic substitute...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/042801/gov_0428010015.shtml
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Bush in Sweden to defend refection of Kyoto treaty

...atop a wooded hill nine miles outside Goteborg. But after their meeting, Bush said he remains opposed to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which commits industrialized countries to reducing greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels by 2012. No industrial...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/061401/wne_0614010046.shtml
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Negotiators rescue global warming pact

...Negotiators from 178 nations rescued the 1997 Kyoto Protocol after 48 hours of marathon talks ending...negotiator, said. "There was one that said the Kyoto Protocol was flawed. Do you see the Kyoto Protocol flawed?" Paula Dobriansky, the head of...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/072301/wne_0723010001.shtml
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After the 'Energy Crisis'

...like those that made progress in the House last week for sport-utility vehicles and light trucks. It opposes the Kyoto protocol on global warming. But the desire not to burden consumers has to be balanced against environmental protection as...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/072301/opi_0723010008.shtml
Opinion
Global warming conference opens in Morocco under heavy security

...policy makers. Nearly 4,000 experts and advisers from 163 countries were working on the legal language governing the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 treaty drafted in Japan that would oblige industrial countries to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/102901/wne_1029010054.shtml
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