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SCHROEDER AT CLIMATE CONVENTION MEETING: NICE WORDS BUT WHERE 
IS THE SUBSTANCE?

BONN, Oct 25, 1999 - Greenpeace described German Chancellor 
Gerhard Schroeder's unexpected call to have the Kyoto Protocol to combat
climate change ratified by the year 2002 as a step forward  for the
international climate negotiations but questioned Germany's own timetable
for ratification and its commitment to reduce greenhouse gases.

Schroeder called for a ratification deadline at a speech given today at
the opening of the climate summit  in Bonn.

"Germany must both ratify the Kyoto protocol soon and implement it," said
Greenpeace International's political director Bill Hare. "Unfortunately
there is little evidence of the German government's commitment to meet its
legal obligations under the protocol to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 21
per cent by 2010," said Hare.

Last week Greenpeace presented a study by  the Wuppertal Institute which
showed that Germany will not reach this goal if current traffic growth
continues.

"Climate change is here now - temperatures are increasing, the Arctic is
melting and sea levels are rising - but there is a disturbing lack of
urgency in the international political negotiations which are currently
moving at a snail's pace," said Hare

Greenpeace called on all Ministers of Industrial countries attending the
Climate convention meeting in Bonn to commit to a deadline for ratifying
the Kyoto Protocol and a deadline for entry into force of the Kyoto
Protocol. The deadline should be no later than the Rio+10 Summit in 2002. 
This would be ten years after the adoption of the Climate Convention at
the Earth Summit at Rio in 1992.  "Any later than this and the
implementation of the protocol would be called into question," said Hare

The Kyoto Protocol was agreed by more than 160 nations in Japan in 1997
and set,  legally binding greenhouse gas reduction targets for each
industrialised nation and a global target of 5.2% by 2008-2012.





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