UN Climate Chief Praises Warming Actions
The Washington Post is telling is UN Climate Chief Praises Warming Actions.
American states and private companies are adopting laudable initiatives on global warming, but the United States will lag behind Europe for years to come, the new U.N. climate chief said Friday.
In an interview four days after taking office as head of the U.N.’s climate change secretariat, Yvo de Boer said the Bush administration no longer doubts climate change is occurring and has begun to take action to control it _ even though it still rejects an international treaty ratified by most other industrial countries.
“The time when the United States called climate change into question is behind us. I don’t hear that happening anymore,” De Boer said in a telephone interview from his office in Bonn, Germany.
Now for Australia to get into the picture and we’ll truly have the makings of a global effort to fight global warming. — DS
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