Originally published January 6 2006
Canadian Prime Minister finds fault with the environmental stance of the United States
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Speaking at the U.N. Climate Change Conference, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin criticized the United States for refusing to work with the world community on a new global warming treaty.
Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin took aim Wednesday at the United States for its refusal to negotiate a new global warming treaty, telling a U.N. conference that the world's most powerful economy needed to resume participating in international talks to reduce greenhouse gases.
Yet there are nations that resist, voices that attempt to diminish the urgency or dismiss the science, or declare, either in word or indifference, that this is not our problem to solve.
Well, let me tell you, it is our problem to solve," Martin said as he opened the high-level talks at the U.N. Climate Change Conference here.
The United States, the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, and Australia are the only two large nations to reject the Kyoto Protocol, which requires developed countries to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases to roughly 5 percent below 1990 levels.
Most climate scientists say much steeper reductions in greenhouse gases --- emitted en masse when fossil fuels combust in cars and power plants --- will be needed in order to truly curtail the greenhouse effect, which already has begun to increase temperatures, raise sea levels and affect weather patterns around the world.
President Bush, who has argued that the Kyoto Protocol's firm caps on greenhouse gases would damage the U.S. economy, has dispatched a negotiating team to the conference that has flatly opposed any talks on a new pact --- a stance that has begun to draw open criticism from other nations.
She said the Bush administration believes it can accomplish more to reduce greenhouse gases outside of international treaties.
The Bush team said Wednesday that it was sending more senior administration officials, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, to the first formal meeting of the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate scheduled for January in Sydney, Australia.
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