Putin's signature to bring Kyoto protocol into force (Bush isolated again)

[tommcintyre]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200410/s1229329.htm

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The law has now been approved by 139 of the chamber's 178 senators - well above the 91 votes for the required two-thirds majority.
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The Kyoto Protocol, which was adopted at a UN climate change conference in Kyoto in 1997, is designed to curb global emissions of greenhouse gases by developed nations.
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The pact requires ratification by 55 nations, including industrialised countries accounting for at least 55 per cent of emissions in 1990.

Another 125 countries have ratified the protocol, but it has not yet taken effect due to the US withdrawal from the pact...