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Bush Proposes Goals on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Summary with new information since yesterday, from articles in English
Will a second forum serve as a spur or a distraction? Second, the president wants the Greenhouse Gas 15 to come up with something by the end of 2008 . (article 2)
That's both suspiciously quick it took years for Kyoto to go into effect and suspiciously late, given that US President George W Bush will leave office a few weeks after . (article 2)
Then there's the absence of binding commitments in Mr. Bush's vision; he's thinking about " aspirational goals as described by White House environmental adviser Jim Connaughton . (article 2)
Bush is right to bring into the discussion China and India, two economic powerhouses that thus far have shown no more inclination than the United States to accept binding international limits on greenhouse gas emissions . (article 2)
" Joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance . (article 8)
This does not seem to be true on earth, however, at least if the penitent is George W. Bush and his repentance is over the administration's past recalcitrance on climate change . (article 8)
The chances that the summit of the group of eight leading countries in Germany this week will prove a significant event have increased . (article 8)
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Source articles
- Bush Proposes Goals on Greenhouse Gas Emissions (nytimes.com, 06/01/2007, 1260 words)
- Mr. Bush Warms Up (Washington Post, 06/03/2007, 413 words)
- Bush proposes global goals for cutting greenhouse gases (baltimoresun.com, 06/01/2007, 832 words)
- Investors seek clarity on climate (BBC News, 06/04/2007, 294 words)
- UN welcomes Bush's climate plans (BBC News, 06/01/2007, 391 words)
- Germany Praises Bush on Global Warming (baltimoresun.com, 06/03/2007, 750 words)
- Blair push for climate progress (BBC News, 06/01/2007, 517 words)
- What the G8 must achieve (ft.com, 06/03/2007, 520 words)
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