Brazil's Lula to challenge Bush on environment - Reuters

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Brazil's Lula to challenge Bush on environment
12 Feb 2007 13:59:55 GMT
Source: Reuters

By Andrea Welsh

BRASILIA, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Brazil will challenge U.S. President George W. Bush to cut
emissions of carbon gases that cause global warming when he visits Latin America next
month, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Monday.

"Brazil has the political and moral authority to demand that rich countries uphold their
obligation to reduce world pollution, instead of creating protocols they don't sign," Lula
said in his regular address on state radio.

Bush declined to sign the Kyoto protocol to cut global emissions in 2001, saying it
unfairly exempted developing nations from targets.

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"We are doing our part," Lula said. "We must demand that rich countries, which are
responsible for 70 percent of the global carbon gases emitted, reduce their pollution."

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