According to the article:
Negotiators from the United States are trying to weaken the language of a climate change declaration set to be unveiled at next month's G-8 summit of the world's leading industrial powers, according to documents obtained yesterday by The Washington Post.....Comment: Unfortunately, as bad as this administration's policies have been in Iraq, stem cells, the Supreme Court, the Justice Department, Disaster relief, population, and other areas, 100 years from now it may be most remembered for having wasted eight years that could have been used to ameliorate the environmental crisis that will occur during the 21st century! JAD
A draft proposal....includes a pledge to limit the global temperature rise this century to 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, as well as an agreement to reduce worldwide greenhouse gas emissions to 50 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. The United States is seeking to strike that section.....
American officials are also trying to eliminate draft language that says, "We acknowledge that the U.N. climate process is the appropriate forum for negotiating future global action on climate change."......
Bush administration officials are also resisting calls for efficiency targets in the declaration, in particular a sentence that reads, "Therefore we will increase the energy efficiency of our economies so that energy consumption by 2020 will be at least 30 percent lower compared to a business-as-usual scenario."
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