John McCain is looking to paint himself as a "Green Candidate" and in doing so will break from current Republican policies on the environment. John McCain does believe that Kyoto treaty should have been embraced in some ways by the U.S. rather than be shoved to the side as the Bush Adminsitration has done.
Referring to the Kyoto Protocols on greenhouse gas emissions the U.S. never signed, McCain added "I will not accept the same dead-end of failed diplomacy that claimed Kyoto." McCain is trying to appeal to younger voters and to so called "Green Evangelicals" with his approach to the environment.
McCain is looking to run an Indpendent/Republican candidate rather than a Bush Republican. When you look at Bush's approval numbers he really does not have much a choice if he seriously wants to be elected.
