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Friday July 13 6:18 PM ET
Bush Details Studies on Global Warming
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) said on Friday his
administration will invest tens of millions of dollars in studies to see how best to
fight
global warming.
Just days before an international conference on the Kyoto pact on global climate
change -- which Bush has rejected as ''fatally flawed'' -- the White House said it was
moving forward on studies to see how best to reduce greenhouse gases.
Bush said in a statement that NASA (news - web sites) will invest more than $120
million over the next three years in research on the natural carbon cycle, climate
modeling and the link between atmospheric chemistry and climate.
The U.S. Department of Energy (news - web sites) has signed agreements for two
other projects to study programs that can absorb carbon, known as ``carbon
sequestration.''
The first agreement is with the Nature Conservancy, the world's largest private
international conservation group, to study land use and forestry practices for storing
carbon more effectively in Brazil and Belize.
The second is with a group of international energy companies -- BP-Amoco, Royal
Dutch/Shell, Chevron and Texaco ; PanCanadian and Suncor Energy of Canada, ENI
of Italy, Statoil Forskningssenter and Norsk Hydro of Norway.
That group will help develop a new set of technologies for reducing the cost of
capturing carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion plants.
Grants for six other sequestration research projects have also been awarded under the
$25 million initiative that Bush said leverages an additional $50 million from the
private
sector and foreign governments.
The Department of the Treasury also entered into a $14 million ``debt for forest''
agreement with El Salvador (news - web sites) under the tropical Forest Conservation
Act, Bush said.
He said the U.S. Department of Commerce is bringing together more than 100
scientists from the United States, Mexico and South America to study the regional
impacts of climate change.
STABILIZING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
The U.N. climate change convention set a nonbinding and unrealized goal of stabilizing
emissions of greenhouse gases at 1990 levels by 2000. The Kyoto protocol, a follow-
up to that, committed developed countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 5.2
percent below 1990 levels by 2012.
The United States, the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, signed the 1997 Kyoto
agreement, but Bush pulled out of the accord before it was ratified by the Senate. He
said it would damage the U.S. economy and was unfair because it did not set targets
for cutting emissions by developing countries like China and India, two potentially
large
emitters.
Bush said last month the 1997 Kyoto agreement was ``fatally flawed'' but he added that
his administration was committed to developing an effective, science-based response
to the issue of global warming.
He said he would boost U.S. spending on research and development to fight global
warming and work to find an international solution to the problem.
The initiatives announced on Friday represent the first step in that effort, White
House
spokesman Ari Fleischer (news - web sites) said.
But the White House has not yet formulated an alternative strategy to the rejected
Kyoto protocol.
When asked about criticism that Bush rejected the Kyoto accord without providing an
alternative, a senior administration official said it was important to fully
understand the
science of the issue before deciding on a policy to deal with it.
``We're doing it deliberately and thoroughly,'' he said. ''This is a very complicated
issue. ... In this next phase we will be undertaking more consultations ... to gather
more
input and ideas and again look at these range of policies.''
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