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According to Reuters The United States pledged to make up for lost time on Monday at a meeting of the biggest greenhouse gas polluters, as the world works toward sealing a U.N. pact in December to curb global warming.
"Climate change is a clear and present danger to our world that demands immediate attention," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told delegates from 16 major economies, the European Union and United Nations.
"The United States is fully engaged and ready to lead and determined to make up for lost time both at home and abroad."
The two-day meeting is meant to jump-start climate talks before an international meeting in Copenhagen in December to find a follow-up agreement to the Kyoto Protocol, which limits climate-warming greenhouse emissions and expires in 2012.
Of course there is often in politics a huge difference between what is said and what is done. So let us watch carefully to see what the Administration does, not merely what they say.
Posted April 27th, 2009 by mattwion
