{"id":431,"date":"2004-10-22T16:58:32","date_gmt":"2004-10-22T16:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=431"},"modified":"2006-10-08T08:02:15","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T08:02:15","slug":"429-of-kyoto-protocol-in-the-duma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=431","title":{"rendered":"[429] Of Kyoto Protocol in the Duma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&#038;storyID=6583811\">Duma has ratified Kyoto<\/a> with 334 ayes against 73 nays. All we need now is Putin&#8217;s signature to signal approval of the Protocol. This for certain will happen soon thanks to Putin&#8217;s explicit promise.<\/p>\n<p>After the signature, 90 days later, the Kyoto Protocol, the dream that first gained momentum at the Earth Summit in Rio De Janeiro, will be a reality.<\/p>\n<p>And an excerpt from the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Washington said the pact was too costly and unfairly exempted large rapidly industrialising countries such as China and India.<\/p>\n<p>But EU Commission President Romano Prodi said Russia&#8217;s backing would put additional pressure on the United States to reconsider its position.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Kyoto Protocol may not be perfect but it is the only effective tool that is available to the international community,&#8221; he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The United States should not abstain from the one fight that is crucial for the future of mankind.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bush asserts that war on terrorism requires global effort. How is he going to expect international cooperation while he himself refuses to work with the world is beyond me.<\/p>\n<p>p\/s &#8211; I somehow managed to mess up with my website template. I will not be able to repair it until next week at the very least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Duma has ratified Kyoto with 334 ayes against 73 nays. All we need now is Putin&#8217;s signature to signal approval of the Protocol. This for certain will happen soon thanks to Putin&#8217;s explicit promise. After the signature, 90 days later, the Kyoto Protocol, the dream that first gained momentum at the Earth Summit in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","category-politics-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}