Putin sends Kyoto treaty to parliament for approval

[Barrett808]

President Vladimir Putin Thursday sent the Kyoto treaty for approval to Russia's parliament, moving the UN's global warming pact a step closer to implementation.

Putin sent the pact to the State Duma (lower house of parliament), the Kremlin press service told AFP, where ratification was all but assured as the main pro-Kremlin party holds a two-thirds majority.

"The examination of this question at the State Duma will not take a lot of time," Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov told reporters.

"There is a chance that it will examine Kyoto as soon as October and at the latest, by year's end," he said.

Russian ratification will mean that the UN global warming pact will be able to make the jump from a draft 1997 agreement into a working international treaty.

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http://www.spacedaily.com/2004/041007133516.aeafpxmy.html

[rfkrocks]

1. Russia is greener than the US-another Shrub first

we are hooked on oil and we can't get off-Uncle Sam is a junkie now-sad sad sad

[lovuian]

2. Its truly amazing that Russia signed Kyoto before USA

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