Kyoto, Japan - Obama Presidency Oral History Kyoto, Japan Index / Locations Transcripts (66) Carol Browner ...You had to do some things around Kyoto [Protocol], come up with a new way o... ...end of Clinton-Gore, where you go to Kyoto , and there's the Kyoto Protocol, an... ...where you go to Kyoto, and there's the Kyoto Protocol, and Vice President Gore i... ...What the Clinton administration did was Kyoto . Right? In terms of big, big steps o... ...more and more science. There was Kyoto . Today, he talks about climate chang... ...You had to do some things around Kyoto [Protocol], come up with a new way o... ...end of Clinton-Gore, where you go to Kyoto , and there's the Kyoto Protocol, an... ...where you go to Kyoto, and there's the Kyoto Protocol, and Vice President Gore i... ...What the Clinton administration did was Kyoto . Right? In terms of big, big steps o... ...more and more science. There was Kyoto . Today, he talks about climate chang... Show more... Nancy Sutley ...the US for screwing up progress under Kyoto [Protocol]. Whether it was true or not... ...can't really be serious. You can't get Kyoto re-ratified. You can't get this... ...in Copenhagen; because remember, Kyoto was really about the Annex I countries... ...to sign up cities to pledge to meet the Kyoto Protocols. It sort of depended on tha... ...the US for screwing up progress under Kyoto [Protocol]. Whether it was true or not... ...can't really be serious. You can't get Kyoto re-ratified. You can't get this... ...in Copenhagen; because remember, Kyoto was really about the Annex I countries... ...to sign up cities to pledge to meet the Kyoto Protocols. It sort of depended on tha... Show more... Todd Stern ...senior White House negotiator at the Kyoto and Buenos Aires negotiations. Fro... ...drafted onto the team working on the Kyoto Protocol negotiations. So before we ge... ...the process of helping to negotiate the Kyoto Protocol. Again, I was a newbie at tha... ...climate change just a few months before Kyoto . I wasn't responsible or involved i... ...I had met and worked with during the Kyoto negotiation, and started thinkin... ...all the things that sunk the ship for Kyoto in the US, that was number one. O... ...in the context of the problems with Kyoto that you were describing as centra... ...from any effort to revamp or revise Kyoto and just said, “I'm out.” And Vic... ...was because there was a negotiation. Kyoto had gotten as far as it got. There wer... ...There were a lot of parties who were in Kyoto , but it was obviously fatally flawe... ...a new agreement with everybody in it. Kyoto is still there, but Kyoto is limited i... ...in it. Kyoto is still there, but Kyoto is limited in what it can do, so we'r... ...But we were going to try to continue Kyoto into a next five-year phase but also d... ...about—again, going all the way back to Kyoto , we had to break the paradigm. Th... ...a mandate for the next try. So we tried Kyoto ; it kind of halfway worked but didn'... ...three-part protocol. Protocol like the Kyoto Protocol, that's very common language... ...meant this is going to be the non- Kyoto . This isn't, like, a new agreement fo... ...negotiation for the mandate that led to Kyoto ; the Berlin mandate in 1995. Th... ...mandate in 1995. The mandate for the Kyoto negotiation had written right into th... ...bifurcated—not much differently than Kyoto , but still a little bit. In terms o... ...that George [W.] Bush walked away from Kyoto —he did it the wrong way, and the... ...way, and they should've tried to fix Kyoto rather than throw it overboard, an... ...you said America had walked away from Kyoto . As you look back, to put ... ...happened with the US unable to join the Kyoto Agreement that it had agreed to, with ... ...senior White House negotiator at the Kyoto and Buenos Aires negotiations. Fro... ...drafted onto the team working on the Kyoto Protocol negotiations. So before we ge... ...the process of helping to negotiate the Kyoto Protocol. Again, I was a newbie at tha... ...climate change just a few months before Kyoto . I wasn't responsible or involved i... ...I had met and worked with during the Kyoto negotiation, and started thinkin... ...all the things that sunk the ship for Kyoto in the US, that was number one. O... ...in the context of the problems with Kyoto that you were describing as centra... ...from any effort to revamp or revise Kyoto and just said, “I'm out.” And Vic... ...was because there was a negotiation. Kyoto had gotten as far as it got. There wer... ...There were a lot of parties who were in Kyoto , but it was obviously fatally flawe... ...a new agreement with everybody in it. Kyoto is still there, but Kyoto is limited i... ...in it. Kyoto is still there, but Kyoto is limited in what it can do, so we'r... ...But we were going to try to continue Kyoto into a next five-year phase but also d... ...about—again, going all the way back to Kyoto , we had to break the paradigm. Th... ...a mandate for the next try. So we tried Kyoto ; it kind of halfway worked but didn'... ...three-part protocol. Protocol like the Kyoto Protocol, that's very common language... ...meant this is going to be the non- Kyoto . This isn't, like, a new agreement fo... ...negotiation for the mandate that led to Kyoto ; the Berlin mandate in 1995. Th... ...mandate in 1995. The mandate for the Kyoto negotiation had written right into th... ...bifurcated—not much differently than Kyoto , but still a little bit. In terms o... ...that George [W.] Bush walked away from Kyoto —he did it the wrong way, and the... ...way, and they should've tried to fix Kyoto rather than throw it overboard, an... ...you said America had walked away from Kyoto . As you look back, to put ... ...happened with the US unable to join the Kyoto Agreement that it had agreed to, with ... Show more... Related Topics go to the Climate, Environment, and Energy Climate, Environment, and Energy go to the Healthcare Healthcare Black Politics Coming soon Human Rights Coming soon Atlantic Relations Coming soon