A Chinese Greenpeace activist dressed as a polar bear carries a child at an information stand to promote the Kyoto protocol in Beijing February 16, 2005. After years of delays, a world plan to fight global warming goes into force on Wednesday, feted by its backers as a lifeline for the planet but rejected as an economic straitjacket by the United States and Australia. The 141-nation Kyoto Protocol formally takes effect at 0500 GMT with celebrations in the ancient Japanese city of Kyoto where it was signed in 1997. REUTERS/Reinhard Krause RKR/JJ