America wants Kyoto Protocol replaced with peer-pressure campaign

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from Grist:



America never ratified the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, and it doesn’t want the rest of the world ever signing anything like it again.

As world climate delegates try (not very successfully, mind you) to thrash out a new agreement to replace the protocol, which expired last year, the U.S. is pushing a very different approach to reducing the world’s greenhouse gas emissions: international peer pressure.

Instead of agreeing to a set of emissions goals, America wants each country to set its own targets — in the hopes that the glare of the international community will encourage governments to make those targets meaningful. America’s goal appears to be to agree to not agree. ....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://grist.org/news/america-wants-kyoto-protocol-replaced-with-peer-pressure-campaign/