Canada and the Kyoto Protocol

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The paper examines a year's reportage on Kyoto and the related political issues, mainly from the standpoint of environmental history in relation to social and economic history. Thematic developments are discussed in relation to international events, Canadian federal events, details of warming and emission control and a distinctive local interest in Kyoto in journalists and public opinion. The paper provides reference to Crane's model of history as reflected in individual and local sentiments.

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"This paper reviews newspaper reportage in Hamilton, Ontario, in the year preceding Canada's January 2006 federal election, to do with the Kyoto Protocol. One sees that many citizens were impatient with the results of the Protocol signed by Canada in December of 1997. The ideal of sustainable development of the 1972 United Nations Conference on Human Environment held in Stockholm, the first international community meeting convened to discuss the global environment in relation to development needs, brought much debate. In the 1980s, there was particular debate on climatic change and whether the world was warming or cooling and the results in both scenarios."

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