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Article: EU/UNITED STATES: CLIMATE CHANGE TOP OF THE LIST FOR ENVIRONMENT TALKS.
- Article from:
- European Report
- Article date:
- October 28, 1998
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Summary:
Americans and Europeans once again sought to settle their differences on how to tackle global warming at a meeting in Brussels on October 21 and 22. Delegations led by James Currie, the European Commission's Director-General for the Environment, and Melinda Kimble, the United States' Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, discussed respective positions in anticipation of the forthcoming Climate Change Conference in Argentina (Kyoto Protocol follow-up), the Bio-safety Protocol, regulation of chemicals, trade and the environment. Whilst there appears to be broad agreement on the majority of ...