APEC unlikely to accept binding gas targets in climate change fight: Australian minis

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APEC unlikely to accept binding gas targets in climate change fight: Australian minister - International Herald Tribune

CANBERRA, Australia: APEC member nations will not accept greenhouse gas emission targets to fight global climate change and creating energy-efficient economies is the way forward, Australia's environment minister said Saturday.

The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum will focus on improving energy efficiency instead of setting specific gas emission reduction targets as the 1997 Kyoto Protocol did, Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio.

"Most of the fast-growing industrializing economies, China being the classic case ... are not going to agree to binding targets on the basis of the Kyoto model," Turnbull said.

The comments came a day after the environmental group Greenpeace said it obtained a proposed draft declaration circulated by Australia among APEC member states ahead of September's annual meeting in Sydney.

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Looks like the jig might be up for kyoto and global warming?

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@Drnaline,

Drnaline;31894 wrote:

Looks like the jig might be up for kyoto and global warming?

Not in spirit, just in name. Transforming industries to more efficient production is the right way to do it. Focusing on numbers of emissions is not the right way, if you get industry working the right way, the probems will fix themselves over time.

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@Drnaline,

Another prospective.

As Went the Dodo so Will Kyoto

American Thinker: As Went the Dodo so Will Kyoto

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@92b16vx,

92b16vx;31895 wrote:

Not in spirit, just in name. Transforming industries to more efficient production is the right way to do it. Focusing on numbers of emissions is not the right way, if you get industry working the right way, the probems will fix themselves over time.

I agree with you there. One person at home can do more then ten al gore wannabe's.

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@Drnaline,

Drnaline;31897 wrote:

I agree with you there. One person at home can do more then ten al gore wannabe's.

Yip. No one needs to have soemone tell them they HAVE to be consciencous of the enviroment, but all it takes are small acts of resonsibility by individuals to make everything better. Of course, soccer moms driving around in H2s is annoying, not because of the enviromental issues, but, well, because it's a soccer mom driving a H2.

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@Drnaline,

H2's are kinda beefy, my best friend has one with a 6 liter. Sucker moves good for a brick.

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