Word: brundtland
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...competitive, but since the White House continues to insist on mostly voluntary action to cut carbon emissions, and the U.N. process is based on Kyoto-style mandatory cuts, contradiction seems inevitable. "People are concerned because [the White House] does have a history of going its own way," Gro Harlem Brundtland, a U.N. special envoy on climate change, told TIME. "But the U.N. process is absolutely the way we have to go. Climate change affects every nation...
...Brundtland warned that if all countries stick to their national positions, "it's not possible to get a constructive meeting in Bali...
...Brundtland noted that the fight must be joined by the highest producers of emissions, such as the United States, and also major developing countries. The United States is not a signatory to the Kyoto Protocol, a 1997 international treaty that caps the amount of carbon dioxide that can be emitted from power plants and factories in industrialized countries. Currently, developing countries like China and India are exempt from its obligations...
...that will be part of what we are consulting on, so that he knows what support he has for that initiative beforehand," Brundtland said. "He hasn't announced it. He's just considering [it] at the moment...
...Brundtland said the world must move forward on a broad front to improve energy efficiency, increase the use of renewable energy sources, improve agricultural and forestry practices, develop a truly global carbon trading market, "and focus on adaptation, in particular for the least developed countries and small island states...