Memo: EU world trip results in firm support for the Kyoto process

The EU Troika represented by the Swedish Environment Minister Mr Kjell Larsson, the Belgian State Secretary of Energy and Sustainable Development Mr Olivier Deleuze and Mr Jos Delbeke from the European Commission completed its round of climate change talks with Canada, Russia, Iran, China and Japan in April 2001. All countries visited expressed serious concerns about the scientific evidence of climate change, reported in the Third Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and on the new US position on the Kyoto Protocol. They all argued that climate change is a global environmental problem that requires a global policy response. They all confirmed the necessity of obtaining a good result at the resumed COP6 at Bonn in July 2001, so as to allow for ratification of the Kyoto Protocol by 2002.