| International Herald Tribune: Australia would only join a carbon emission trading agreement if the United States, China and India were included, Prime Minister John Howard said Tuesday as he again refused to sign on to the Kyoto Protocol. Australia and the United States are the only industrialized countries that have refused to ratify the agreement reached in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997 which sets targets for 35 countries to reduce their emissions of carbon which are widely blamed for global warming. As ... |
