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Obama's green promise also sent an unvarnished signal to some of the most influential climate negotiators in the world - including representatives for China and Indonesia, who will be vital in completing a new Kyoto Protocol - that he intends to fight climate change head-on. And his statement may well buoy the flagging global momentum on climate change. The European Union, which has long led the world in aggressively addressing global warming, has lately gotten cold feet about its own ambitious carbon targets, with poorer members like Poland arguing that such goals are unaffordable in a depressed global economy...
...greener would be to send a high-level delegation along - or even stop by himself. It's important to realize that much of the rest of the world's disdain for America originates in Bush's apparent contempt for international climate action, first indicated by his withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol process not long after taking office. Changing that attitude - even if real progress doesn't happen immediately, which it won't - would go a long way toward repairing America's image in the world. "The world needs to see the U.S. engage here," says Tercek...
...course, true international action on climate change will require strong support at home - and it's not clear that exists yet. (Bush gets the blame for ditching Kyoto, but don't forget that the Senate in 1997 voted 95-0 that the U.S. shouldn't sign onto the protocol in its finished form, and President Bill Clinton never brought the treaty to Congress.) It'll be up to the next President - with the help of a somewhat greener Congress - to change that, even as he copes with a hemorrhaging economy. But there's one bright side for President...
...Famously, Bush vetoed an attempt to lift the federal stem cell funding ban in 2005, and he withdrew from the Kyoto accords. Less well-known are his politically motivated appointments to scientific committees regulating the energy industry or his attempts to prohibit governmental officials—including NASA’s top climatologist—from speaking if their findings contradicted the administration’s policies...
...urgently need a Kyoto protocol to address financial climate change, fight the greed-house effect and reverse the decline of ethics. We must curtail the emissions of toxic investment funds and promote and reward the development of sound financial products for the sake of global economic health. Ray Moser, Lausanne, Switzerland...