Nov 18 (Reuters) - Following is a notable quote from history.

"We have rescued the Kyoto protocol. We can go home and look our children in the eye and feel proud of what we have done."

-- European Union environment commissioner Margot Wallstrom after the Bonn climate summit in July 2001. Russia formally ratified the Kyoto Protocol on global warming on Nov. 18, 2004, clearing the way for the environment pact to come into force in February 2005.

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