NYT/Reuters: Bush Should Be Open for G8 Climate Talks: Pelosi
By REUTERS
Published: May 28, 2007
BERLIN (Reuters) - House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Monday President George W. Bush should be open to plans to fight climate change at a G8 meeting and willing to move forward in new ways with his partners.
The leader of the opposition Democrats said she and a bipartisan delegation of congressional leaders had made a stop in Greenland and saw how global warming was threatening the livelihood of people who were not to blame....
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Germany hosts the June 6-8 meeting of Group of Eight leaders that will focus on climate change. Chancellor Angela Merkel wants the club to agree steps to halt global warming to prepare the ground for an extension of the Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012.
Pelosi told journalists she would meet Merkel on Tuesday ''to personally congratulate her, and thank her, for her leadership.''
Merkel faces resistance from Washington, which refused to sign up to Kyoto and opposes binding emission cut targets despite U.N. reports warning of rising sea levels, droughts and floods linked to climate change....
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The United States, the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide caused by burning fossil fuels that scientists say is nudging up global temperatures, has given no sign it is open to compromise at the G8 meeting in the Baltic resort Heiligendamm.
In fact, the United States wants key targets and timetables for combating global warming -- including a pledge to halve emissions by 2050 -- removed from a draft summit communique....
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/washington/climate-pelosi.html
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