1.   So they risk losing most potential economic growth if a climate treaty sets ceilings on emissions.

2.   But barring a sharp turnabout by Japan, a climate treaty with binding emissions reductions is unlikely to be one of them.

3.   But the plan was quickly denounced by many of the other nations that are trying to negotiate a new climate treaty.

4.   Clinton administration officials are divided on an approach to the global climate treaty.

5.   Electric power and oil companies are pressing for forests they own to be used to offset cuts in greenhouse gas emissions under a proposed global climate treaty.

6.   For two weeks beginning Monday, the United States and the European Union face off as the principal antagonists over the climate treaty, called the Kyoto Protocol.

7.   He also made a pitch for the climate change treaty that faces an uphill battle for Senate ratification.

8.   Negotiations to reduce carbon dioxide emissions have been going on since they were begun in April by the parties to the climate treaty, but they are inching along.

9.   That means a climate treaty that will require a cap on emissions must allow companies flexibility about how to lower their carbon output.

10.   That may be the only meaningful alternative to a politically doomed climate treaty based on specific targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, he said.