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WORLD / America
Global warming meetings put focus on US role
(Agencies)
Updated: 2007-09-23 21:57
"Unless the United States decides it wants to be a major and committed
leadership player in this and make very specific leadership commitments,
much of the rest of the world is going to effectively hide behind the
skirts of the United States and not do anything," said Tim Wirth, head of
the nonprofit UN Foundation.
"So what the United States does and how the United States decides to
enter this negotiation is going to be a very, very telling commentary on
the future of the climate negotiations and I believe on the fate of the
Earth."
Only the United States and the chief UN climate change representative,
Yvo de Boer, are scheduled to make public comments at the Washington
meeting.
The White House would not release the names of participants, so it was
unclear whether top government officials would attend. At least one
country, Brazil, did not plan to send its president or even its
environment minister.
In between the UN and Washington meetings, the nongovernmental Clinton
Global Initiative will convene in New York from Wednesday through Friday.
A nonpartisan project of former US President Bill Clinton's foundation,
it will discuss climate change with participants from business, academia,
entertainment and nongovernmental environmental organizations.
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