It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
The UK is one of the only nations on earth that has actually met and even exceeded its goals under the Kyoto Protocol.
I don't think Kyoto can last without the U.S. We've always said we wouldn't ratify ahead of the U.S.
Nobody is going to give away the farm in Kyoto. It is not anybody's to give away. And even if the United States Senate would actually ratify a bad treaty, anything called for under the treaty would require legislation passed through both houses.
In terms of Kyoto it would be considered carbon neutral,
To render it well, it's not a tiny art film. If you're going to make this movie correctly, the beautiful version, you have to see Japan, you have to see all the beauty that Kyoto has to offer, you have to really experience that world. And that costs money.
Countries are not on track to reach even their modest Kyoto targets, despite growing recognition that we are already facing dramatic consequences as a result of climate change.
On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way.
(As currently drafted) the Kyoto Protocol could actually accelerate forest destruction by giving incentives to plant large-scale plantations on formerly native forest land,
Even if humans were causing global warming -- and we are not -- but even if we were, Kyoto would do nothing to avert it,