News.com.au: Kyoto supporters hail Rudd victory in Australia - by Richard Ingham
Kyoto supporters hail Rudd victory in Australia - by Richard Ingham
Supporters of the Kyoto protocol were gleeful today after Australian elections left the US in the wilderness as the only major economy to boycott the UN's climate pact. Prime Minister-elect Kevin Rudd has pledged to ratify Kyoto and his defeat of John Howard at the polls has stripped President George W. Bush of a key ally barely a week before a conference in Bali on the world's response to climate change beyond 2012, they said. “It's great news for the Kyoto protocol,” Shane Rattenburg, Greenpeace's political director, said.A European diplomat said Howard's departure would hamper US efforts to coax support from two other countries whose governments, eyeing the cost of meeting their Kyoto pledges, could waver at Bali. “We're pleased about the (election) outcome,” he said.
Labels: Australia, Elections, Kyoto Protocol
