Cleaner Greener NZ

The Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions came one step closer to enforcement after its ratification by the NZ and Canadian governments. Although both countries are relatively minor industrial polluters their signatures are vital in making up the numbers necessary for the pact to be put into place. The refusal of the U.S (the world’s worst polluter) to sign the Kyoto pact has considerably held up its progress, but its imminent ratification by Russia should see it in force next year.