EVENT: 22nd Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC)
DATE: November 11 - 15, 2001
LOCATION: Baltimore, MD
DUE DATE FOR ABSTRACTS: May 1, 2001
The European Union will send a high level delegation to Washington next week in a bid to "clarify" the USA's position on the Kyoto climate protocol. The move was announced by Environment Commissioner Margot Wallstrom as European condemnations of the Bush administration's apparent rejection of the Kyoto Protocol multiplied.
A group of 10 prominent figures from various walks of life have written an open letter to President George W Bush urging him to review his stance on the environment. The letter, in Monday's issue of Time magazine, follows signals that the Bush administration had abandoned the 1997 Kyoto treaty aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions, which are blamed for global warming.
