PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
GLOBAL WARMING AND COCA COLA (8 April 2001)

That this House is alarmed at the threat to the future of the planet from global warming; notes with concern the decision of President Bush to reject the Kyoto Protocols following the Rio Convention signed by this father, and that his Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill warns that the proposed global warming treaty does not go far enough, and that scientists on the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Control warn that the earth is warming faster than they predicted six years ago; further notes that without the treaty, US carbon dioxide emissions are projected to increase by 34 per cent. of 1990 levels by 2012, and that each person in the developing world produces about 2 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year from fuel combustion while every European produces about 12 tonnes and every US citizen about 20 tonnes and that in 1999 the US produced 5,558 billion kilos of carbon dioxide; recalls that 84 countries agreed to the Kyoto Protocols and that leading senators and representatives have tabled a cross-party Bill calling for US utility companies to meet Kyoto targets; and urges Coca Cola, which helped fund President Bush's election, to campaign to persuade the President to endorse the Kyoto agreement in Bonn in July,

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