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Originally Posted by C1ay
Not until someone rewrites Kyoto with "NO EXEMPTIONS". As long as businesses can move carbon emmissions around the globe for financial gain they will and that's what Kyoto enables. Kyoto could actually increase CO2 emmissions by causing companies to close down cleaner operations using newer, more expensive technologies in countries like the U.S. and moving them to countries using older, cheaper, dirtier processes to produce the same product because all of the sudden that newer, more expensive technology in use now is just not clean enough. |
I am completely in line with your points here C1ay, and feel they were well articulated too. However, the US has been doing emissions trading since the 1970s (
Emissions Trading).
This is all well outside the scope of Bush, his presidency, and his ability. China is really the major player in this now.
More info:
http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1...cle-70073.html
http://www.social-ecology.org/articl...31202111003557
From that first article from the
Clean Air Initiative:
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There's little doubt that India and China will be big sources of credits. Both are industrializing at a breakneck pace with little regard for the environmental consequences, so there's no shortage of areas where pollution can be reined in. India has already negotiated dozens of carbon credit sales in projects ranging from hydro stations to harnessing methane gas released by decomposing garbage. China, on the other hand, has been a relative laggard, with just three such deals so far. But many others are in the works. "China has a huge potential to become one of the largest markets" for pollution credits, says Kishan Khoday, team leader for energy and the environment at the U.N. Development Program in Beijing.
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http://www.globalsolutions.org/progr...ies/kyoto.html
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine...4/b3948520.htm
How long is going to take for the global community to band together on this one and implement changes? Will it be a massive evolutionary event?... That would be unfortunate.
