World News U.S. says it's protecting environment

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MONTREAL (AP) - The United States is doing more than most to protect the Earth's atmosphere, U.S. officials told a U.N. conference on climate change Nov. 28.

Leading environmental groups have blasted Washington for refusing to sign a 1997 global treaty aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Canada opened the 10-day U.N. Climate Control Conference, with about 10,000 experts from 180 nations, to brainstorm on ways to slow the alarming effects of greenhouse gases and global warming.

U.S. representatives noted greenhouse gas emissions had gone down in the United States by 0.8 percent under the Bush administration.

They added that the United States spends more than $5 billion (¥599 billion) a year on climate change research and technology, and has committed to cutting greenhouse gases by 18 percent by 2012.

Elizabeth May of the Sierra Club Canada, however, accused the world's biggest polluter of trying to derail the Kyoto accord.

"We have a lot of positive, constructive American engagement here in Montreal and none of it's from the Bush administration, which represents the single biggest threat to global progress," she said.

米国、環境への取り組み強調

国連の気候変動枠組条約第11回締約国会議がモントリオールで始まり、11月28日米国代表は地球環境を守るために懸命に努力していると述べた。

Shukan ST: Dec. 9, 2005

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