John Howard (Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

You cannot have an effective response to global warming unless you have all of the culprits in the net. As you know, Kyoto does not impose the obligations it would have imposed on Australia on countries like China and India. The United States is not a member of Kyoto and, if my quick mathematics is correct, if you add the United States, India and China together, you have virtually half of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. How on earth can an agreement that does not embrace almost half of the world’s emitters be the answer? It plainly is not the answer, and that is why we have not signed it. And there is another reason why we have not signed—that is, if we signed it in its present form—

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