The international fight to control climate change heads to a new arena in next month. This and some more optimistic news were announced yesterday by the international informational agencies. As we have found, it is about when the Senate is going to debate a bill that could cut total U.S. global warming emissions by 66 percent by 2050. This great news are giving us much doze of hope, that the policy of the George W. Bush might be changed. As our readers know, The US is the only major industrialized nation outside the carbon-capping Kyoto Protocol.
This hope comes by the fact that the three major U.S. presidential candidates for presidential election- Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, all senators — favor curbing carbon emissions, giving proponents of cap-and-trade hope for legislative action in 2009. As it goes, it seems like money is key, according to John Larsen, a specialist on climate and energy at the World Resources Institute, a non-profit, non-partisan environmental think tank.
“They are essentially creating money … that is distributed around the U.S. economy,” are Lars’ words front of reuters’ reporters. “Any time the Congress considers policies that distribute wealth … you can expect interesting politics.”
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