Secret U.S. plan to wreck a G8 initiative.* Even as the Kyoto protocols Kyoto Protocol: see global warming. to reduce global warming global warming, the gradual increase of the temperature of the earth's lower atmosphere as a result of the increase in greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution. went into effect in February, the Bush administration was continuing to thwart international environmental efforts. The latest is a State Department memo outlining a secret U.S. plan to wreck a G8 initiative to act against illegal logging Illegal logging is the harvest, transportation, purchase or sale of timber in violation of national laws. The harvesting procedure itself may be illegal, including using corrupt means to gain access to forests; extraction without permission or from a protected area; the cutting of in the world's threatened rainforests. Europe is strongly backing the initiative proposed by British Prime Minister Tony Blair Noun 1. Tony Blair - British statesman who became prime minister in 1997 (born in 1953) Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, Blair , and U.S. tactics have drawn furious international response. Karen Ann Gajewski is a freelance editor and an editorial consultant to the Humanist. |
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