Environmentalists and businessmen urge Poland to ratify Kyoto Protocol

Delegates to a conference on the role of business in global climate protection yesterday urged Poland to ratify the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which the country signed in 1997. The delegates concluded that Poland was obliged to ratify the accord in the light of its commitments to the EU. According to the environmentalists and businessmen who took part in the conference, the Polish budget may be boosted by up to $200 million a year if the Kyoto regulations come into force. By signing the protocol, Poland will agree to reduce the amount of its carbon dioxide, nitrogen and methane gas emissions by 6%, a target it has already surpassed. (Prawo i Gospodarka, p. 3) M.S.-C.