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Article: Let's see climate change realism The carbon emission targets set out by the Kyoto treaty are too binding, as economic growth will soon prove.
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- Sunday Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
- Article date:
- December 16, 2007
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Let's see climate change realism
The carbon emission targets set out by the Kyoto treaty are too binding, as economic growth will soon prove
HARDLY anyone will say so, of course, but the Americans have a point when they reject "binding" targets for carbon emissions in any new Kyoto treaty.
There are two obvious reasons. One is purely political: governments should not have the right to bind their successors, and the voters who elect them, to irreversible policies. This is a principle which Americans, with their directly-elected executive presidents, take rather more seriously than most Europeans.
Not that it is really binding or irreversible at all. The new ...
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