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The Cincinnati Beacon
America Uses the Strong Arm on the Kyoto Treaty
Thursday, December 08, 2005
Posted by Andrew Warner
America is leading the way in defeating the Kyoto treaty on climate change and is devising a strategy to get European nations on board.
The Kyoto treaty is an environmental agreement with relatively little weight in regards to actually fixing the problems. Environmentalists for the most part agree that it would be progress.
A group that is primarily funded largely by Kyoto Treaty opponent ExxonMobil has what some see as a controversial lobbying method. Chris Horner of the group Competitive Enterprise institute believes that Europe’s now slumping economies may be receptive to an anti-Kyoto message.
Trying to build a coalition of support in Europe Horner wrote this:
In the US an informal coalition has helped successfully to avert adoption of a Kyoto-style programme by maintaining a rational voice for civil society and ensuring a legitimate debate over climate economics, science and politics. This model should be emulated… to guide similar efforts in Europe.
Opponents of Kyoto believe that if enforced it will hinder economic growth through tight regulations. There is nothing illegal about the type of lobbying being performed.
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