U.S. opposes deadline for ratifying Kyoto Protocol
OTSU, Japan — Officials from the “Group of Eight” major industrialized countries completed two days of talks here with a statement saying that they hoped to ratify the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on global warming by 2002, although the United States and Canada both opposed a deadline.
The protocol requires the United States to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 7% below the 1990 level.