U.S. Attacked on Its Climate Stance
From the LA Times in the USA: U.S. Attacked on Its Climate Stance
MONTREAL — Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin took aim at the United States on Wednesday for its refusal to negotiate a new global warming treaty, telling a United Nations conference that the world’s most powerful economy needed to resume participating in international talks to reduce greenhouse gases. “Climate change is a global challenge that demands a global response. Yet there are nations that resist, voices that attempt to diminish the urgency or dismiss the science, or declare, either in word or indifference, that this is not our problem to solve. Well, let me tell you, it is our problem to solve,” Martin said as he opened the high-level talks at the U.N. Climate Change Conference here.
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The article goes on to add that:
Later, at a news conference, Martin, who is in the midst of an election campaign, singled out the United States by name, saying, “To the reticent nations, including the United States, I say this: There is such a thing as a global conscience.”
The United States, the world’s largest producer of greenhouse gases, and Australia are the only two large nations to reject the Kyoto Protocol, which requires developed countries to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases to roughly 5% below 1990 levels.
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