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The main reason the American government refuses to ratify the Kyoto accord on climate change is that?
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∙ 9y ago
The main reason the American government refuses to ratify the Kyoto accord, is the accord would bankrupt the United States. The accord would not address the carbon emissions of countries such as China.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 9y agoOne of the main reasons the American government refuses to ratify the Kyoto accord is because they think the cost of doing so will hurt the American economy. Another reason they won't ratify it is because many don't believe that climate change exists.
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∙ 12y agoThe problem the US government saw with the Kyoto Accord was that it was requesting cuts according to numbers that were neither accurate or correctly reflecting pollution production and that the cuts in GHG (greenhouse gases) would have been damaging to the infrastructures of some nations and that it would not have been up held at the 15% by the majority of nations.
As of 2012 the 15% of 1990 levels has been reduced to 2% of 1990 levels.
Also, as of 2005 the US per capita levels is 23.5 which is a little more than 5% below 1990 levels making it one of the countries who actually managed to obtain the goal despite refusing the treaty.
Also, at the time of the Kyoto protocol discussions. The US accounted for 1/3 of all GHG it has reduced that to less than 1/4 and lowered itself from the #1 per capita GHG producer per capita to the #7.
It has also reduced CO2 per capita by 20%, GDP per CO2 was reduced from being in the top 20 to being the 49th in the world.
The US is currently maintaining a -1.4% annual change in GHG per capita and is outperforming China, India and Europe as a whole.
Since then Canada has dropped out of it as they had met all benchmarks and were outraged that there were no actions taken against those who did not meet their goals.
So, in finality, the US didn't ratify the Kyoto Accord on account of a failure to properly out line the expectations and not providing any reliable means of enforcing the standard.
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