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Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:49:49 +0200
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Legge un po' queste news.
Giorgio
http://www.co2e.com/News/News.asp
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13/10/2003: ASEM environment ministers urge Russia to ratify Kyoto Protocol+: Kyodo News
LECCE, Italy, Oct 13, 2003 (Kyodo via COMTEX) -- Environment ministers from 10 Asian and
15 European countries concluded a gathering in southern Italy on Monday by urging Russia
and other nations to ratify the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on global warming as soon as possible.
In a chairman's statement issued after the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) of environment
ministers, they stressed the need to work toward early implementation of the agreement
through cooperation among nations concerned before the ninth session of the Conference of
the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, to be held in early
December in Milan.
The protocol, adopted in Kyoto in 1997, would enter into force 90 days after Russian
ratification under the agreed implementation requirements for the number of countries
ratifying it.
But Russia has recently backed off from an earlier willingness to soon ratify the accord.
Although it was one of the signatories, the United States pulled out of the protocol in 2001.
The pact requires industrialized nations to cut their greenhouse gas emissions from 1990
levels by an average of 5.2% between 2008 and 2012.
Japanese Environment Minister Yuriko Koike attended the Lecce meeting.
ASEM consists of 10 Asian countries -- Brunei, China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the
Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam -- and 15 European Union (EU)
member countries plus the European Commission, the executive branch of the EU.
