THE gloomy view from the international climate change negotiations, held in Milan in December 2003, was that the Kyoto protocol was “dying a death of a thousand cuts” (New Scientist, 13 December 2003, p 6). This is also my impression. But a minister tells me: “The government’s view is that Kyoto is the only game in town.”
The trouble with the Kyoto protocol, which commits countries to limiting their greenhouse gas emissions, is partly the US opt-out — the US is responsible for more than 20 per cent of global greenhouse gas emission — and partly the Russians’ delay…
