US President offers alternative to Kyoto accord
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(14 Feb 2002)
1. US President George Bush walking onto stage
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) George Bush, US President:
"The approach taken under the Kyoto protocol would have required the United States to make deep and immediate cuts in our economy to meet an arbitrary target. It would have cost our economy 100 (b) billion dollars and we would have lost 4.9 million jobs. As the President of the United States charged with safe-guarding the welfare of the American people and American workers, I will not commit our nation to an unsound international treaty that will throw millions of our citizens out of work. Yet we recognise our international responsibilities, so in addition to acting here at home the United States will actively help developing nations to grow along a more efficient, more environmentally responsible path."
3. Wide Bush at podium
STORYLINE:
President George W. Bush proposed an array of tax incentives on Thursday to encourage pollution reduction as an alternative to the Kyoto Protocol.
Bush came under severe criticism last year when he rejected the international accord saying it would hurt the U.S. economy.
The agreement requires 40 industrialised nations to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions, the so-called greenhouse gases believed to cause global warming.
Bush claimed the treaty, worked out by the Clinton administration, but not ratified by the Senate, could cost millions of American jobs.
The pact commits industrial nations to roll back greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels.
Bush set a goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 18 percent in 10 years by giving companies incentives to cut emissions and find alternative forms of energy.
He also said that the United States would help developing nations find more environmentally friendly methods of industrialisation.
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1. US President George Bush walking onto stage
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) George Bush, US President:
"The approach taken under the Kyoto protocol would have required the United States to make deep and immediate cuts in our economy to meet an arbitrary target. It would have cost our economy 100 (b) billion dollars and we would have lost 4.9 million jobs. As the President of the United States charged with safe-guarding the welfare of the American people and American workers, I will not commit our nation to an unsound international treaty that will throw millions of our citizens out of work. Yet we recognise our international responsibilities, so in addition to acting here at home the United States will actively help developing nations to grow along a more efficient, more environmentally responsible path."
3. Wide Bush at podium
STORYLINE:
President George W. Bush proposed an array of tax incentives on Thursday to encourage pollution reduction as an alternative to the Kyoto Protocol.
Bush came under severe criticism last year when he rejected the international accord saying it would hurt the U.S. economy.
The agreement requires 40 industrialised nations to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions, the so-called greenhouse gases believed to cause global warming.
Bush claimed the treaty, worked out by the Clinton administration, but not ratified by the Senate, could cost millions of American jobs.
The pact commits industrial nations to roll back greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels.
Bush set a goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 18 percent in 10 years by giving companies incentives to cut emissions and find alternative forms of energy.
He also said that the United States would help developing nations find more environmentally friendly methods of industrialisation.
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