Bush Calls for Global Goals for Emissions

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Summary

On Thursday, Bush urged 15 major nations to agree by the end of next year on a global emissions goal for reducing greenhouse gases. He gathered the countries including China, India and major European countries identified as major emitters of greenhouse gases causing global warming.


My opinion

Why the United States try to take an initiative about reducing greenhouses gases, while it is no doubt the United States has refused to ratify the landmark 1997 Kyoto protocol requiring industrialized countries to reduce reducing greenhouse gases. The listed countries contain not only the advanced countries but rapidly growing economies like India and China. I think the United States maybe feels threatened about these developing countries’ catching up, so the U.S. interrupts those countries’ growth to restrain the greenhouses gases emission.