| Reuters: President Jacques Chirac unveiled on Thursday plans for an international conference next month to promote a French proposal to tax imports from countries that refuse to join the successor to the UN Kyoto environment pact. French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin proposed in November a carbon tax on imports of industrial products from such nations, but gave no details. Kyoto, which was agreed in 1997 and runs until 2012, binds 35 industrialised countries to curb their ... |
