Kyoto compliance impossible

South Korea's Environment Minister Kwak Kyul-ho announced, at a five-day environment conference being hosted in Seoul, that the emerging industrial powers will never be able to reach carbon dioxide emissions targets:

"No matter what the cut required would be, it is impossible to follow the Kyoto Protocol measures that are based on the 1990 levels even if those countries wanted to," Kwak told Reuters in an interview, listing South Korea, China, India and Brazil.

Kyoto can't be happy that it has lent its name to a joke.

Why did the Kyoto Protocol cross the road?

The real question is, what was it doing out of the UN?