[If traffic today seems about the same as usual, it's because "World Carfree Day" failed again]

22 September is World Carfree Day!

Kremlin adviser says Kyoto can't stop climate change [by the way, could we have some large sacks of cash for temporarily not cutting down some of our trees?] | Reuters

(Reuters) - The Kyoto Protocol will have virtually no impact on slowing global warming unless it expands to take in the United States, China and more developing countries, Russia's chief climate negotiator said on Wednesday.
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"We want cooperation in the period after 2012 to be all inclusive," Bedritsky said. The United States, which refused to ratify Kyoto, agreed to the Copenhagen deal.

Bedritsky said no binding agreement would be signed at the conference in Cancun but that he expected progress toward a deal. At the top of Russia's list of demands is recognition for the role its vast forests play in absorbing carbon dioxide.