VOL. XLVI

No 49

8-December-2003

GENERAL

Kyoto Protocol Cannot Be Accepted In Present Form, Says Russia

Russia has said that it cannot accept the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 global treaty designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, in its present form. An advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Andrei Illarionov, said in Moscow on 2 December during the course of a meeting between President Putin and Russian and European business leaders that in its current form, the Kyoto Protocol places...