US Back in Spotlight as China, India Increase Pressure by Announcing Aggressive Mitigation Plans : Red, Green, and Blue

US Back in Spotlight as China, India Increase Pressure by Announcing Aggressive Mitigation Plans : Red, Green, and Blue: "US Back in Spotlight as China, India Increase Pressure by Announcing Aggressive Mitigation Plans
Written by Mridul Chadha
Published on September 26th, 2009
Posted in Climate Change, Editor's Choice, U.S., World

About ten weeks from now leaders from nearly 200 countries will meet in Copenhagen to discuss the next climate treaty. During the last two to three years governments around the world moved to and fro over contentious issues like funding, technology transfer, intellectual property rights and emission reduction targets. As the world started to look for a replacement of the Kyoto Protocol, the start was slow with no sign of urgency even as the UNFCCC recommended a 25 to 40 percent reduction in global carbon emissions by 2020."