VOL. XLIV

No 30

23-July-2001

ENVIRONMENT

Kyoto Protocol Talks ResumeIn Bonn

A new round of international negotiations on climatechange began in Bonn on 16 July. The two-week meeting of delegates from 178countries is intended to pick up where the failed 6th Congress ofthe Parties (COP6) left off last November in The Hague (MEES, 4 December 2000), and will attempt to determine the finalparameters of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which established targets for areduction of greenhouse gas emissions in...