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Bush tries to sabotage fight against climate change
31 May 2007
In response to President Bush's speech this afternoon, Friends of the Earth's Director, Tony Juniper, said:
"President Bush claims the USA is a leader on climate change, yet the US has some of the highest per capita emissions in the world.
"According to the President the solution is technology, but everything we need has already been invented. The thing slowing us down is the absence of an international agreement and policies to put it into effect. President Bush has been a consistent block in forging such an agreement and that is where he remains today.
"President Bush's proposal for new international negotiations on climate change to conclude at the end of 2008 can only be seen as a transparent attempt to derail negotiations that are already going on in the G8 and the United Nations. If the President wishes to be taken seriously on the subject of climate change he needs to arrive in Germany next week with a willingness to negotiate rather than a determination to wreck talks which are already going on."
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Last modified: Jul 2008
