Swedes say no to using their own sinks.
When you decide you may not use them that way. That s the position of Sweden, which is saying something, since, as they put it, they got a lot of trees in Sweden and every year they re growing more. Swedish environmental minister Kjell Larsson admitted in an interview with The Earth Times that his country could do well if liberal allowances were made for carbon-storing sinks, but, he said, That would not adhere to the integrity of the Kyoto Protocol. Larsson added that Sweden s goal at the Hague Climate Conference was to get a agreement that has environmental integrity, that will result in a big, meaningful reduction of CO2 emission, and that has the clear marks of equity in it. Absorbing carbon emissions, rather than reducing them, he said, was not in the spirit of Kyoto.