Abstract
Despite international agreement on the importance of reducing emissions of greenhouse gases – thought to contribute to a warming of the earth’s climate – leading governments are divided over how to achieve that goal. US President Bill Clinton’s environment package announced on 22 October has only served to highlight those political divisions. Preparatory discussions in Bonn in recent weeks have failed to resolve these differences, and have cast a pall over the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to be held in Kyoto on 1–10 December. Barring a dramatic breakthrough, a legally binding treaty to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions is increasingly unlikely to emerge from Kyoto.
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