I-TAN Alert Stop US Global Warming Pollution November 16th, 2000

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ALERT
Call or e-mail the White House and demand the U.S. cut our domestic emissions of Global Warming pollution.

EXPLANATION

International climate negotiators are now meeting at The Hague, The Netherlands and these meetings will determine
the future of the Kyoto Global Warming Protocol.  In 1997, the world's leaders agreed to reduce their global warming
pollution to five percent below 1990 levels by 2008 to 2012.  The details of those emissions reductions are now be
discussed, and the U.S. is negotiating agreements that will maximize loopholes and avoid any real reductions in U.S.
global warming pollution.

Demand that the U.S. stop negotiating to weaken the environmental integrity of the Kyoto Protocol.  The U.S. must
act now to cut our auto and power plant emissions to become the world leader in cutting our global warming pollution
instead of the world leader in creative accounting and passing the buck.

Climate change activists have chosen Friday, November 17 to flood the White House with calls demanding the U.S.
take action to curb global warming, but calls early next week are also valuable. Tell President Clinton that you want
the U.S. to demonstrate world leadership and cut our global warming pollution through domestic actions, not with
loopholes and risky trading schemes.

Recent studies have revealed even more evidence of man's impact on climate change, and the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC) now projects that global temperatures could rise by as much as 11 degrees F by 2100!
Meanwhile, a 500-year storm, which has likely been worsened by global warming, is pelting Europe and serving as the
backdrop to the climate change negotiations.

Instead of heading to The Hague Summit armed with emissions reductions, the U.S. position is brimming with
loopholes and risky pollution trading schemes to weaken the Kyoto Protocol.  These threaten to denude the
environmental integrity of the Protocol turning this into the "Emperor's New Treaty".

Sierra Club is urging the U.S. to stop using loopholes and accounting tricks to meet international obligations, and to
instead commit to real reductions in global warming emissions.  As the world's largest global warming polluter, the
U.S. must take the lead in reducing its emissions of carbon dioxide and other green house gases.

The U.S. committed to reducing its global warming pollution and we should meet this obligation by cutting our
domestic emissions, not with smoke and mirrors.  We should oppose efforts to use loopholes and risky trading
schemes to evade our obligation as the world's biggest global warming polluter.

For more information

If you'd like more information, please call the Chapter office at 312-251-1680, or e-mail Chris Hayday.

This concludes the I-TAN Action Alert.

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Send all comments concerning this action alert to the attention of Jack Darin at illinois.chapter@sierraclub.org or call 312-251-1680.

Every call counts.