World's Citizens To Demand Clinton-Gore Exclude Nuclear Power From Kyoto Protocol
Conference Call To Highlight Risks of Promoting Nuclear Power
The Nuclear Information and Resource Service/World Information Service on Energy-Amsterdam (NIRS/WISE) and Ozone Action are hosting a press conference call on Tuesday, September 19, at 10:30 am EST to highlight the Clinton-Gore Administration's position on nuclear power in the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty to stop global warming. At last week's climate negotiations in Lyon, France, the Administration turned a blind eye to nuclear power projects being included as one of the "clean" energy technologies in the treaty.
Many nations, including "developing" countries, already oppose this and have asked that nuclear power be excluded from the list of eligible technologies. Further talks and a final decision likely will be made in November during the COP6 negotiations in The Hague, Netherlands. This press conference will highlight the upcoming critical round of international negotiations and the economic and environmental dangers of the current U.S. pro-nuclear position.
Please join us to hear the concerns of several leading experts and witnesses to the problems of nuclear power and it does not offer a viable solution to global warming.
WHO: Dr. Hendrik Vygen, Deputy Director General, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany
Lionel Hurst, Ambassador to the United States from Antigua & Barbuda, both member states, Alliance of Small Island States
Alexander de Roo, Vice-President and coordinator,
Environment & Public Health & Consumer Policy, European Parliament
Alexander Kuzma, Executive Director, Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund
!QW!:Contact NIRS, 202-328-0002 for call-in information
WHEN:Tuesday, September 19, 2000, 10:30AM — 11:30AM
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