Bush Unveils Climate Change Proposal

Source: NPR

Nice. In President Bush’s words:

Bringing progress and prosperity to struggling nations requires growing amounts of energy. It’s hard to grow your economy if you don’t have energy. Yet, producing that energy can create environmental challenges for the world. We need to harness the power of technology to help nations meet their growing energy needs while protecting the environment and addressing the challenge of global climate change.

In recent years, science has deepened our understanding of climate change and opened new possibilities for confronting it. The United States takes this issue seriously. The new initiative I am outlining today will contribute to the important dialogue that will take place in Germany next week. The United States will work with other nations to establish a new framework on greenhouse gas emissions for when the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.