Reply #2: Of course.

[Oerdin]

How do you think Germany, Poland, Hungary and the others could meet their Kyoto goals? Why do you suppose they held out for 1990 emissions levels to be the base line? They're not stupid, they knew that simply closing the dirty, money losing communist era factories would result in them meeting most of their Kyoto goals. In fact most of them were made prior to the treaty ever being signed since those factories were closed in the early to mid 90's.

I wish more people here would ask about the whys and hows behind it before fanboying it. Still, I guess rigged target numbers are still better then no target numbers.