U.S. Climate Change

(taken from Agence France-Presse)

United States President George Walker Bush was announced his visions for fighting global climate change. The speech by BUsh, known for cozying up to
big energy-burning industries and opposing mandatory caps on carbon emissions as too costly to the economy, will layout goals for countering environmental
polution over the next 20-50 years.But, the leader of one of the world's top polluters was not expected to stray far from largely voluntary, pro-technology approach he has embraced in the past.
This speech talked about a strategy for a way forward and principles for dealing with the problem.

There was a meeting of the world's major polluters in Paris, the talks including identified long term and realistic intermediate goals for greenhouse gas emission.
Ensure all major economies like France, Germany, China and India play a role in any international agreement so as to avoid a future a Kyoto-like effect,
referred to the 1997 treaty which did not require require high-polluting-developing countries to reduce emission.
Former president Bill Clinton signed Kyoto but United States never ratified it and bush abandoned it in 2001, saying the binding restrictions on U.S. emissions
would prove to costly and harmful to U.S. ability to compete. The Republican president made no mention of the words "global warming" or "climate change"
in his first five State of the Union addresses.

Last year he acknowledged that climate change is a "serious challenge", a statement environmental groups welcomed as an important first step, but critics said
he could have gone further toward creating incentives for change. In the sunset of his White House tenure, clean energies have gained popularity amid fears
of permanent global damage from pollution, and pressure has mounted for Congress to pas federal legislation to limit the levels of emmissions.

In announced these goals he emphasized the importance of incentiveizing technologies as an effective way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. There was a
bill sponsored by Republican Senator, would set a limit of on the level of carbon emissions and introduce economic incentives for cutting back on pollutants.
The Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012. On average it requires nations to reduce their emissions 5.2 percents below their 1990 level between 2008 and 2012.
This would represent a 29 percents cut in overall emissions compared to level expected by 2010.