Japan's Prime Minister Koizumi delivers a speech to commemorate the entry into force of the Kyoto ......
Japan's Prime Minister Koizumi delivers a speech to commemorate the entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol in Tokyo. Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi delivers a speech to commemorate the entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol, at his official residence in Tokyo broadcast live to the ceremony in Kyoto, February 16, 2005. After years of delays, a world plan to fight global warming went 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. REUTERS/Issei Kato