VOL. XXXIX

No. 43

22-July-1996

GENERAL

US Now Favors Curbing Carbon Gas Emissions

The United States and the European Union, together with a number of other countries, have pledged to restrict carbon gas emissions from oil and coal by next December in the fight against global warming. The pledge was made in a declaration that was written into the official record of the UN Conference on Climate Change which ended in Geneva last week. Agreement on the declaration became possible on 17 July...