Greenhouse gas emissions in the Netherlands fell by around 2 percent in 2005 from a year earlier and were at approximately the same level they were in 1990.ย โIt’s a good thing, but they (the Dutch) still have a way to go in order to meet their targets under Kyoto,โ said Joris Thijssen of Greenpeace, referring to the international treaty under which the Netherlands agreed to reduce its emissions to 5 percent below 1990 levels by 2010.
Corporate pledges to fight deforestation by turning degraded pasture into cropland seen boosting demand for harmful chemical inputs.
As the New York-based firm was preparing to work on the climate summit, it was also pushing for Brazilian oil and gas distributor Vibra Energia to help power it.
Trade groups lobbied ministers to promote a source of energy linked to massive environmental harms at the U.N. climate conference.
Agribusiness companies generate huge quantities of greenhouse gas pollution โ and PR companies help them obscure it.
