But as Matt Peacock reports, there is still strong resentment over the US refusal to back the Kyoto agreement to reduce greenhouse gasses. European and other OECD Ministers have vowed to see the Kyoto Protocol in force by 2002, with or without the United STates, but the Bush Administration remains insistent its costs are too great.
Every state wants to be part of a solution.
We're going to find a formula that's fair to all and that is effective on the ground and get on with the job. Senator Hill says the Chinese Government to whom he spoke on the way here WANT the protocol, but are very reluctant to accept gas reduction targets before the developed countries do. Matt Peacock, Paris.