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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - The first meeting of a U.S.-led alliance aimed at reducing greenhouse gases is unlikely to be held in November as promised, a government minister said Tuesday.
The Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Energy Development — which also includes China, Japan, India, South Korea and Australia — was launched in July to develop technologies to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases believed to be warming Earth's atmosphere. It was touted as a more effective solution to global warming than the Kyoto Protocol.
Critics, however, suspected it was a ploy to undo the Kyoto pact and an excuse for Washington and Canberra to reject the protocol, which took effect in February. Kyoto aims to cut carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions by industrialized nations by 5.2 percent below their 1990 levels by 2012.
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