There was a special clause written into Kyoto...which I found interesting. If you know this all real...and you had technology on your side...you could develop trees that could switch C02 at double the speed...as I've been told. Apparently....the Kyoto guys wrote up an agreement that this was a "foul" and would not lessen your negative numbers one single bit. I sat there...and thought...if I was sinking in a river and someone threw me any kind of life vest...I wouldn't care what kind it was. Apparently...they do.
It is growth and population control, pure and simple. Wait till we all have to wear our individual excess carbon producing numbers on our foreheads.
I think you're right. Its a reason the Aussies didn't sign. Also, I read one version that didn't grant credits for carbon decrease due to new muclear plants.