1.   The critical issue at the Kyoto conference, however, is the rift between the industrial and the developing nations over greenhouse gas reductions.

2.   The president has promised a strong American proposal for specific levels of greenhouse gas reductions that is still being drawn up.

3.   At the urging of the former Bush administration, the treaty was written without any deadlines or targets for greenhouse gas reduction.

4.   Beckett emphasized that the coming round of greenhouse gas reductions was only a first step.