[greenyes] Bush Administration Position on Global Warming

["Peter Anderson" <anderson@no.address>]

FINANCIAL TIMES


Climate treaty 'puts US growth at risk'
By Fiona Harvey, Environment Correspondent
Published: December 9 2004 20:38 | Last updated: December 9 2004 20:38

The gulf between the US and Europe on climate change yawned as wide as ever 
on Thursday after Washington told an international conference that limiting 
carbon emissions in line with the Kyoto protocol on climate change would 
damage growth.

Harlan Watson, senior climate negotiator for the US State Department, told 
the meeting of signatories in Buenos Aires that the treaty's success would 
depend on "whether or not the Kyoto parties will be willing to take on what 
we believe would be non-growth economic policies".

This stands in direct opposition to the European Union, which will implement 
its scheme to limit industrial emissions of carbon dioxide in January, and 
the UK, which has taken a strong stand on climate change.

Tony Blair has discussed climate change with President George W. Bush on 
several occasions, but has made little progress. Mr Blair's office on 
Thursday confirmed that Kyoto remained the cornerstone of its approach: "We 
remain committed to Kyoto, and the need for a cohesive international 
[treaty]."
Paula Dobriansky, US under-secretary of state, told the Financial Times: "We 
think that we share a common commitment to dealing with climate change, but 
there are different approaches."

She outlined a number of initiatives the Bush administration had undertaken 
to combat climate change, including financing for the Earth Observation 
Summit, a system for monitoring changes in the global environment.

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