Brussels, 12/11/2001 (Agence Europe) - To the delight of the European Union, the conditions are now in place for the Kyoto Protocol on climate change to be ratified and come into force. The Protocol obliges 38 industrial countries to cut their total greenhouse gas emissions by 5.2% between 2008 and 2012 on the 1990 level. Ministers from 167 countries have been meeting in Marrakesh for two weeks (COP 7: 29 October - 9 November) to negotiate the operational rules for the Protocol, and scraped...