and promoter of the Protocol
and the UK has taken up a leading role on the issue, especially during its presidency
of the EU and the G8 in 2005. The USA, on the other hand, as the greatest emitter
of greenhouse gases, withdrew from the Kyoto Protocol in 2001 and has based its
∗Preasent address: School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Tower
Building, Park Place, Cardiff
CF 10 3AT, UK, E-mail
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