On the recordMay 23, 2001
I joined the gentleman from Texas at the Hague, and what the Kyoto Protocol did is it left a lot of the details of implementation to further negotiations. One of the questions at the Hague was the so-called ``sinks,'' the sequestration of the CO2, and this chart, I think, demonstrates why the United States was trying to insist that sinks be a consideration in emissions. As we see by this chart, this is North America, and the red indicates the amount of CO2 emissions. The blue at the bottom displays the sequestration, or the sinks, how much of the CO2 we capture by our corn and our sorghum and our field crops and our woodlands. And when we compare that with Europe and the whole Eurasian and North African area, we can see that the amount of emissions of CO2 greatly exceeds the amount they sequester. It seems to me this was one of the reasons that Europe said, well, no, we cannot allow you any credit for sequestering those.
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