...the Kyoto Protocol...the first component of an…

For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument Kyoto Protocol of global governance,"..."By acting together, by building this unprecedented instrument, the first…

— Jacques Chirac

To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the…

— Christine Todd Whitman

The Bush Administration believes the Kyoto protocol could damage our collective prosperity, and in so doing, actually put our long-term environmental health at risk.…

— Lawrence B. Lindsey

Redirect federal spending aimed at fulfilling the terms of the increasingly irrelevant Kyoto Protocol.

— Stephen Harper

The UK is one of the only nations on earth that has actually met and even exceeded its goals under the Kyoto Protocol.

— Al Gore

Kyoto protocol is not a simple environmental issue, where you can say scientists are not unanimous. This is about international relations, this is about…

— Margot Wallstrom

Sensible policies on global warming should weight the costs of slowing climate change against the benefits of slower climate change. Ironically, recent policy initiatives,…

— William Nordhaus

On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have…

— Hans Blix

It is becoming increasingly clear that the targets in the Kyoto Protocol cannot and will not be met on the established timetable in the…

— Eileen Claussen

Globally, emissions may have to be reduced, the scientists are telling us, by as much as 60% or 70%, with developed countries likely to…

— Michael Meacher

Ideology on which the Kyoto Protocol is based, is a new form of totalitarian ideology, along with Marxism, Communism and socialism.

— Andrey Illarionov

Three scenarios for post-Kyoto emissions reductions indicate that ... the long-term consequences are small... The influence of the Protocol would, furthermore, be undetectable for…

— Tom Wigley

The seas need their own Kyoto Protocol.

— Enric Sala

The impact of the Kyoto Protocol on global temperature is quite modest, especially for the first century. The reduction in global mean temperature in…

— Henry Sylvester Jacoby

I think the deeper truth is that the Kyoto Protocols will not be followed by anyone really and that, in effect, nothing will be…

— James Howard Kunstler