Quotes About Kyoto Protocol

To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing.

On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way.

The U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process.

I've been a supporter of green initiatives for years. I've been paying more and more attention to it, you know, with three kids. I thought it was tragic when the Kyoto Protocol was killed by the U.S. It was sort of a call to action.

We think that the Kyoto protocol is a necessary document, necessary process. I am convinced that we will agree to disagree about substance.

in the 15 European countries that comprised the European Union when the Kyoto Protocol was adopted in 1997, emissions were nearly 5% lower in 2010 than they were in 1990.149 Compare this to the United States, which is not a party to the Kyoto Protocol, where emissions in 2010 were 5% greater than in 1990.150

After the Kyoto Protocol was signed in 1997, multinational corporations began to leave the GCC. They thought that in the wake of Kyoto they would have to accommodate themselves to a carbon-constrained world and they were becoming increasingly uncomfortable with the GCC's "slash and burn" tactics. In 2002 the GCC became dormant, but only after spending tens of millions of dollars attacking climate science and policy.

The strategy behind the Kyoto Protocol has no grounding in economics or environmental policy.

In July 1997, three months before the Kyoto Protocol was finalized, U.S. senators Robert Byrd and Charles Hagel introduced a resolution blocking its adoption.168 Byrd-Hagel passed the Senate by a vote of 97–0.