1. Both the Germans and French continued to disagree with Bush over his rejection of a global warming treaty and the creation of an International Criminal Court. 2. Bush has rejected the Kyoto Protocol, a global warming treaty agreed to by the Clinton administration. 3. Bush has until May to send a team to the next round of negotiations over the Kyoto Protocol, the draft global warming treaty. 4. Even as the Kyoto conference lurched toward crafting an agreement, a global warming treaty faces other hurdles. 5. He said Clinton needs to fix the global warming treaty if he wants Congress to support his call for broader negotiating powers to strike new trade deals. 6. If President Clinton means to get U.S. participation in the global warming treaty ratified, he will have to beat the Senate with the public. 7. Negotiators met behind guarded doors late Friday night, trying to reach a consensus on a global warming treaty before their meeting breaks up on Saturday. 8. Nor did he give any ground on the Kyoto global warming treaty, which he despises because he fears it would be costly to business. 9. Now Republicans have objections to portions of the global warming treaty that would require the United States to reduce emissions at a greater rate than other countries. 10. One of them concerns the global warming treaty. |