Look! Look! Bush Admin "Could Be Ready" For Voluntary GHG Targets!

[hatrack]

US President George W. Bush's top environmental adviser hinted Tuesday that Washington could be ready to agree voluntary targets on greenhouse gas emissions.

"I don't discount targets, I don't discount voluntary partnership measures," James Connaughton told BBC radio during a visit to London ahead of a major UN environmental conference in Montreal that opens next Monday.

"We need a full portfolio of these measures in order to make progress."

Connaughton said his view reflected a shift by other members of the Group of Eight leading industrialized nations, rather than a U-turn by the United States which never adopted the Kyoto protocol on limiting greenhouse gas emissions.

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http://www.terradaily.com/2005/051122110324.zag1t93w.html

What a breakthrough. Jane. Stop this crazy thing.

[Canuckistanian]

1. Voluntary means "ain't gonna happen anytime soon"

These assholes don't even volunteer to answer questions truthfully in a Senate investigation.

[phantom power]

2. And, they only "might" agree to voluntary targets.

Which they will voluntarily ignore, if they do agree to them.

Slow down, I beg you! This rapid progress is giving me a nosebleed.

[Dead_Parrot]

3. "We voluntarily agree...

... to keep our CO2 emissions under a trillion tons per year, because we care for the future."

Just guessing.