They're in trouble now!
Well, well, well. It looks like a lot of the EU countries are hoist by their own petards over Kyoto. Europeans missing their Kyoto targets.
Britain and Sweden are the only European countries honouring their Kyoto commitments to cut greenhouse gases, according to a think-tank report.Although the US is portrayed as the ecological villain for refusing to sign up to the agreement, 10 out of the 15 European Union signatories - including Ireland, Italy and Spain - will miss their targets without urgent action, the Institute for Public Policy Research found.
And "urgent action" are words not found in their vocabulary over there. Singularly or together. So what will happen? The governments will get fined billions of dollars, which they will pass on to their citizens with higher taxes. Remember, New Zealand got stuck with a bill because there were too many sheep emitting greenhouse gases. It came to something like $3,000 per citizen in fines.
So there you go. Bureaucracy in work. To create the mess and make it worse.