VOL. XLV

No 8

25-February-2002

GENERAL

PresidentBush Unveils Climate Change Initiative, Clean Skies Legislation

USPresident George W Bush unveiled his proposal for how the US would addressglobal climate change on 14 February, nearly a year after he announced that hisadministration would not ratify the Kyoto Protocol, which sets mandatorytargets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions (MEES, 2 April2001). He also called for the introduction of Clean Skies legislation thatwould reduce the...