1.   Talks resume next week in Bonn on legally binding emission reduction targets that Washington has rejected.

2.   The head of the US delegation, John Knauss, described emissions targets as idealistic.

3.   The EC has granted Britain lower sulphur emission targets than its EC neighbours.

4.   Critics of the government, in particular the Greens, believe that the emission targets are not attainable within the existing and planned array of measures.

5.   A successful attack on global warming will only happen through mutually agreed-upon actions, such as a nationally collected tax, rather than through national emission targets.

6.   Bush opposes the federal Endangered Species Act, the Superfund Program and the Kyoto Protocol, which establishes greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for industrial nations.

7.   Bush rejected the Kyoto treaty last year, saying the emissions targets were not scientifically justified.

8.   Companies, for example, could face fines if they fail to meet emissions targets, or stiffer targets for cutting emissions in the future.

9.   Extending the timetable for the first emissions targets, now only a decade, would hugely reduce the cost of meeting them.

10.   Japan, Canada, China, and other countries supported credits toward emission targets by substituting nuclear power.