BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- The United States, facing international criticism for its rejection of the Kyoto Protocol, argued Tuesday it spends billions of dollars seeking new technologies to cut emissions of the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
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Harlan L. Watson, a U.S. climate negotiator, insisted the Bush administration was aggressively seeking ways to limit U.S. output of harmful emissions, arguing investments in cleaner energy was the best strategy.
"We match or exceed what any other country is doing to address the issue," he said. "I would challenge any of the Kyoto parties to match us both internationally and domestically."
Watson said the Bush administration was planning to spend more than $5 billion annually researching climate change and the development of new cleaner fuels and ways to manage and store carbon dioxide, the leading greenhouse gas.
The United States has also decided to implement its own voluntary carbon dioxide emissions. President Bush opposes mandatory emissions controls and has refused to endorse the Kyoto agreement, which enjoys broad support in Europe.
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"I'm not sure why we're considered the 'bad boys'," Watson said. "Much more focus ought to be put on actions," not the commitments posed in the protocol, he said. "Kyoto was a political agreement.
It was not based on science."
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