UN climate pact unlikely until after Bush--experts (Reuters)

[Eugene]

UN climate pact unlikely until after Bush--experts
18 Nov 2006 13:34:57 GMT
Source: Reuters

By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent

NAIROBI, Nov 18 (Reuters) - This week's U.N. climate talks kept a plan
for fighting global warming on track for expansion beyond 2012, but
breakthroughs look unlikely before U.S. President George W. Bush steps
down, experts said on Saturday.

"Everyone is waiting for the United States. I think the whole process
will be on ice until 2009," when Bush's second term expires, said Paal
Prestrud, head of the Center for International Climate and Environmental
Research in Oslo.

The United States is the biggest source of greenhouse gases, mainly
from burning fossil fuels, and Bush's decision to reject caps under the
U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol discourages involvement by other big-polluting
outsiders such as China and India.

After two weeks of talks, about 70 environment ministers in Nairobi
agreed on Friday to a 2008 review of Kyoto as a possible prelude to
deeper emission cuts by rich nations beyond 2012 and steps by
developing countries to brake rising emissions.

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[Stephanie]

1. THIS is why he will be damned for all of history

If there is any history.