login
login

Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8012

23 July 2001
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/climatic change
Kyoto Protocol saved in extremis by minimalist agreement wrestled in Bonn - Union triumphs modest success, which constitutes first step in fight against global warming

Brussels, 23/07/2001 (Agence Europe) - Practically buried on Sunday night following fruitless negotiations, the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations framework convention on climatic change was saved on Monday morning in Bonn (COP6b) by a political agreement, gained in extremis, through consensus, over a minimalist compromise between the Ministers for the Environment from 185 countries. The opposition of Japan - key partner - to a system of sanctions imposed on industrialised countries that...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS
ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION
WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT