US joins India, Australia, China, Japan, South Korea in energy pact

India Defence ^

[Srirangan]

Washington, July 28 (PTI) The Asia-Pacific Partnership for Clean Development and Climate between six nations, including India and the US, will work toward pollution reduction and addressing concerns over climate change in the region which accounts for almost half of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, US President George W Bush has said.

India, the United States, Australia, Japan, China and South Korea have joined hands "to develop and accelerate deployment of cleaner, more efficient energy technologies to meet national pollution reduction, energy security, and climate change concerns in ways that reduce poverty and promote economic development," Bush said in a statement.

The President said he has directed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Energy Secretary Sam Bodman to meet with their counterparts to provide direction in this regard.

[yoe]

Kofi must be piching a fit.............the Kyoto Treaty was his Goose that laid the Golden Egg...

[skimbell]

Considering the economic significance of the signatories to this agreement, Kyoto ought to just about be dead.

[.cnI redruM]

>>>>>India, the United States, Australia, Japan, China and South Korea


Let's see... China and India were the major sources of GHG pollution NOT included in the Kyoto Pact. That would mean GWB is about to produce a treaty that would do MORE to combat future environmental problems than Kyoto. What was it we needed the UN for again?

[biblewonk]

India, China and the US are big Wind power markets. Japan is working toward 1.35 percent wind power which is way too modest for most of us windpower nuts. Australia has enough wind resource to produce all of their power from wind times about 20.