111.   But Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said Canberra would not back down on its plan to increase its greenhouse gas emissions.

112.   Bush has renounced the accord which commits industrialized nations to reduce heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions.

113.   Bush defended his stance by saying stricter limits now on greenhouse gas emissions could further weaken the U.S. economy and worsen energy shortages plaguing parts of the country.

114.   Bush has defended his stance by saying that stricter limits now on greenhouse gas emissions could worsen energy shortages in parts of the United States.

115.   Business groups in New Zealand called for tax breaks Tuesday to help them cut greenhouse gas emissions to meet targets set by the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.

116.   Continued population and economic growth will offset government strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the department says in its second national report on climate change.

117.   Current proposals for the Kyoto meeting would leave out developing countries, including China, whose runaway pollution is a large source of greenhouse gas emissions.

118.   Currie said the refusal of the U.S. Senate to ratify the cuts to greenhouse gas emissions was now the greatest threat to the agreement reached in Kyoto.

119.   Countries have already agreed on some issues, such as guidelines for measuring so-called greenhouse gas emissions.

120.   Critics say it will cost too much to implement while developing countries will be allowed to let greenhouse emissions grow.