Al Gore Seeks Earlier Start to Kyoto Pact Successor

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Al Gore Seeks Earlier Start to Kyoto Pact Successor
March 13, 2007 — By Reuters

COPENHAGEN -- Former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore called on Tuesday for Kyoto countries to bring forward by two years the start date of a new global warming treaty, to 2010, given the urgency of the global warming problem.

The Kyoto Protocol ties some 35 industrialised countries to 5 percent emissions cuts from 1990 levels by 2012, and the signatories to the pact are currently negotiating a successor.

The United States pulled out of the pact on the basis of the possible costs and job losses, but climate change campaigner Al Gore said the next U.S. president, to be installed in 2009, could push for the country's inclusion in a new treaty.

"If we were to move to a 2010 start the energies of the American political system could (complete) this within the first two years of the president's term," he said.

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