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Re: Theos-World - Kyoto

Sep 24, 2001 04:43 AM
by Bart Lidofsky


Peter Merriott wrote:
> 39 countries have in fact ratified the treaty, of which Romania is one, but
> the majority of these are not the main generators of greenhouse gases. For
> example, the UK, Germany and France have not ratified but were prepared to,
> apparently, if the US also signed.
> 
> For information see http://www.unfccc.de/resource/kpstats.pdf

I looked up your reference (and determined that it IS a valid United
Nations site). I notice, however, that the column is "ratified or
acceded", not "ratified", and all the countries mentioned in the column
are developing countries who, in order to accede to the treaty need to
do pretty much nothing.

Bart


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