31.   About half of the funds have been designated for environmental studies, including research on controlling carbon dioxide emissions and improving coal-burning technology.

32.   Among others, the DOE has introduced several regulations to control emissions from diesel and petrol motor vehicles.

33.   Apart from that, it is also to control emission from mobile and stationary sources including prohibiting open burning.

34.   But Democrats say Bush has reversed his rationale, and liken it to his abandonment of his campaign pledge to control carbon dioxide emissions.

35.   But the biggest priority, he said, was to control the emissions of greenhouse gases.

36.   Countries begin negotiating a convention on controlling gas emissions.

37.   Countries can offset part of their quota of reductions through afforestation, buying credits from countries that exceed their targets, or helping developing countries control their emissions.

38.   Unless emissions are controlled, scientists warn, rising atmospheric temperatures will raise ocean levels and disrupt the global climate.