Russia Kills All Hopes For Kyoto Protocol Success

[hatrack]

"Russia dealt a mortal blow to the Kyoto Protocol limiting greenhouse gas
emissions today when a senior adviser to President Vladimir Putin said it would
not sign up to the pact. Kyoto needed Russia's ratification to take effect.

"In its current form, the Kyoto Protocol places significant limitations on the
economic growth of Russia," Putin's economic adviser, Andrei Illarionov, said in
the Kremlin. "Of course, in this current form this protocol can't be ratified."

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But Illarionov said firmly that the pact was against Russian interests. "It's impossible to undertake responsibilities that place serious limits on the country's growth," he said. He added that it would be unfair to Russia to curb
emissions and stymie its own growth while the United States and other nations
which account for the bulk of global emissions refuse to join the pact.

The protocol's proponents see Kyoto as a vital first step in cutting emissions,
warning that failure to quickly put it into force would trigger a dangerous, steep
rise in greenhouse gas concentrations that would be far more difficult to control
in the future."

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[ramapo]

1. Didn't Putin decide this awhile ago?

I thought I heard some time ago that he was against it. He made some remark that global warming might be ok with Russia cause then it wouldn't be so cold there?

Maybe this was the formal nyet.

[tom_paine]

2. Chain reaction of fools...

Don't kid yourselves folks, people are looking at Imperial Amerika today on more issues than just the environment.

Civil Liberties ("Why did we waste all this time getting rid of our Secret Police, limiting surveillance, and protecting political prisoners, when Imperial Amerika is getting both up and running? Did we actually once believe them to be on the side of freedom?")

Economy ("Maybe having super-rich and dirt poor and very little in between isn't such a bad idea. After all, it seems to be working in Amerika, though they still have a long way to go.)

And so forth...

[shawn703]

3. Dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=248935

[dpbrown]

4. Quid quo Pro for letting Putin snag that capitalist, I betcha

Remember a couple of weeks or a month ago, when we read about a famous capitalist in Russia being arrested?

I bet the BFEE did a deal with Putin to let Putin take this competition down while the BFEE mob stood aside, in return for Putin's putting a stake through the heart of Kyoto.