THE Kyoto protocol is dying a death of a thousand cuts. Last week, the US reiterated that it wants nothing to do with the sole international agreement designed to save the world from runaway global warming. The European Union, Kyoto’s main promoter, revealed that most of its members will not meet their treaty’s obligations. And Russia once again seemed to be on the point of wrecking the protocol completely.
These blows follow a history of bureaucratic squabbling and political posturing by the protocol’s signatories, and many observers now fear that it has been damaged beyond repair. So does the world…
