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ENVIRONMENT: U.S. SIGNS PROTOCOL ON GREENHOUSE GASES

Jim Lobe
Inter Press Service English News Wire
11-13-1998
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (IPS) -- The United States today signed the
Kyoto Protocol to cut emissions of greenhouse gases, but top
officials said there were no immediate plans to submit the treaty
for ratification by a hostile, Republican-led Senate.
The announcement, just 24 hours the end of 12 days of talks in
Buenos Aires on the treaty's implementation, was designed to assure
other countries of American support for the Protocol and encourage
developing countries to follow the lead of Argentina and Kazakhstan
which have pledged to curb emissions.
"As we have said before, we will not submit the Protocol for
ratification without the ...

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