The Kyoto Protocol

Putting the brakes on global warming is no easy matter. Some ways to reduce our contribution of greenhouse gases include setting strict emissions standards, reducing our fossil fuel use, developing alternative sources of energy to replace fossil fuels, removing carbon dioxide from emissions at the source, eliminating the use of chloro-fluoro-carbons, slowing or mitigating deforestation, and developing agricultural techniques that release less carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. These changes would have far-reaching impacts on our …

…two-thirds from the original goals, and countries were given the option of planting carbon-absorbing forests to earn pollution credits, in lieu of reducing emissions. The European Union and other nations continue to pressure Bush to adopt the Kyoto Protocol. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has passed a unanimous resolution calling for him either to sign on to a revised version of the Kyoto Protocol, or to develop a new international agreement for reducing greenhouse gases.