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Debate: Kyoto Protocol
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- Debate: Developed countries have a higher obligation to combat climate change
- Debate:Kyoto Protocol (redirect page)
- Position: US opposition to the Kyoto Protocol
- International Policy Network
- Position: The Copenhagen Consensus on Global Warming
- Argument: Kyoto Protocol conflicts with some international trade agreements
- Argument: Kyoto gains support in the 2005 Montreal Conference
- National Resource Defense Council
- American Council for Capital Formation
- Argument: Kyoto Protocol wrongly exempts heavy-emitting developing nations
- Argument: US population growth increased energy demand; Kyoto is impractical
- Argument: The Kyoto Protocol's emissions targets are economically reasonable
- Argument: Industrialized countries cannot economically afford to meet Kyoto's targets
- Position: Al Gore opposed the Kyoto protocol in 1997
- Position: Friends of the Earth sued the Canadian government for allegedly withdrawing from commitments to Kyoto
- Argument: The Kyoto protocol would harm the American economy
- Argument: Costs of Kyoto are less than environmental-economic costs of inaction
- Argument: The Kyoto Protocol stimulates new industries
- Argument: Kyoto Protocol cannot significantly cut emissions without US
- Argument: The Kyoto Protocol's target cuts in emissions are achievable
- Argument: The Kyoto Protocol is showing little progress in reducing emissions
- Past Debate Digest topics
- Argument: The US is (wrongly) the only industrial economy to oppose Kyoto
- Argument: Voluntary emissions schemes do not effectively cut emissions
- Argument: Humans are not causing global warming so Kyoto can't solve it
- Argument: US has a responsibility to lead on climate change and in Kyoto
- Argument: Kyoto Protocol violates national sovereignty and controls
- Argument: Kyoto Protocol employs inefficient government controls
- Argument: Countries must work together under Kyoto to combat global warming
- Argument: The Kyoto Protocol entails serious economic costs for signatories
- Argument: Kyoto would only benefit the global warming establishment
- Argument: Kyoto is an important first step in the right direction
- Argument: Opposition to Kyoto strains US image in the world
- Argument: Voluntary emissions reduction schemes have low participation levels
- Argument: Kyoto is too difficult to implement; won't cut emissions
- Argument: Kyoto makes insufficient emission cuts to fight global warming
- Argument: The Kyoto Protocol is not very expandable
- Argument: Kyoto regulations on C02 emissions do not improve air-quality
- Argument: Regulating C02 is wrong approach; market investments are better
- Argument: The Kyoto Protocol's emissions targets are unrealistic
- Argument: Industrial countries caused global warming so should carry burden
- Argument: General statements of support for the Kyoto Protocol
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