I was amazed to read that Friends of the Earth agree with the outcome of the Kyoto summit ('Fuelling the green issue', Times, December 6).

The summit's agreement was a purely political one that allowed the world's 'poor' countries to burn more fossil fuel.

I assume that the amount burned would grow rapidly and that the burning would be inefficient and dirty, all of which would massively increase our atmosphere's CO2 and pollution.

To compensate, the 'rich' countries would reduce their clean use of fossil fuel.

That would cost the rich countries so much that they would have to cut down their aid for the poor ones.

Surely that's not what FoE really wants?

R C Baron

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