I agree — it’s pure gesture politics. Even our (Canadian)Conservative government has set standards, which will effectively ban classic incandescent bulbs by 2012. They had to do it to shut the ecowackos up. A lot of people actually believed that the only thing necessary to meet Kyoto targets was changing light bulbs, and getting a bus pass. Now, they're starting to wake up to the realities.
Kyoto is a joke, thank God we somehow managed to dodge that bullet in the 90s.