¥Weak aim, but few governments made serious efforts
¥
¥US only voluntary action and exhortation and
re-labeling
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¥Russia met target due to collapse of her economy
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¥Germany meets targets due to absorbing East Germany
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¥British because it privatized electrical generation(?)
and cut coal subsidies
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¥1995- shift to binding national greenhouse-gas emissions
limits
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¥December 1997 Kyoto Protocol signed
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¥US Senate resolution: hostility to emission limits
unless developing countries also cut emissions
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¥Five year period – 2008
through 2012
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