Ottawa reneges on $1.5m Kyoto pledge

Canadian Press: The federal Conservatives are canceling a $1.5 million pledge by the previous Liberal government to help developing countries cut greenhouse emissions under the rules of the Kyoto Protocol. Abandoning the pledge made at a United Nations conference in Montreal last December is another blow to the teetering climate treaty which the government still claims to support. The money would have gone to the treaty's clean development mechanism (CDM), which allows industrialized ...Link