Kyoto: una de buenos y malos

Los malos:

By 2012, the plants in three key countries – China, India, and the United States – are expected to emit as much as an extra 2.7 billion tons of carbon dioxide, according to a Monitor analysis of power-plant construction data. In contrast, Kyoto countries by that year are supposed to have cut their CO2 emissions by some 483 million tons.

The United States, China, and India—are planning to build nearly 850 new coal plants

Los buenos:

With natural gas prices expected to continue rising, 58 other nations have 340 new coal-fired plants in various stages of development. They are expected to go online in a decade or so. Malaysia, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, and Turkey are all planning significant new coal-fired power additions. Germany also plans to build eight coal plants with 6,000 megawatts capacity.

Ocurre que encima, se de muy buena tinta que Alemania - sí, Alemania, el paraíso de los Verdes, la nación apóstol del buenismo kyotero- planea la construcción de 26 centrales térmicas:

German Chancellor Angela Merkel supports constructing 26 coal-fired power plants, despite her strong environmental stance, a published report said Wednesday.

The plants proposed by Germany’s four major utilities — Vattenfall AB, RWE AG, E.on AG and Energie Baden-Wuerttemberg AG — would generate large amounts of so-called greenhouse gases, despite Germany’s pledge to reduce its carbon-dioxide emissions 40 percent by 2020, Der Spiegel reported.