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Events on Wednesday 28 March 2001 1
2001United States rejects the Kyoto ProtocolBush administration abandons the climate treatyIn March 2001 President George W. Bush announced that the United States would not implement the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions, citing economic costs and the exemption of developing countries. The decision isolated Washington from many of its allies. The treaty entered force without US participation in 2005.