ajc.com - 12/11/2008
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Associated Press Writer POZNAN, Poland Negotiators from 190 countries agreed a year ago to complete a new global warming treaty by the end of 2009 that would force governments to reduce carbon emissions. That deadline now appears to be slipping away. "It was too optimistic to begin with," said ...
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Betsy Taylor: Talking to Pessimists in Poznan
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change issued a press release at the start of the Poznan proceedings and announced that the Copenhagen timeline for change was "too optimistic to begin with," and that "the U.S. won't be in a position to negotiate with specific targets and timetables in 2009." Days later, Pew kept the so-called "realistic" predictions coming. Elliot Diringer, director of international strategies for the Pew Center was ...
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... was that the gathered parties here in Poland should not get their hopes up that the US would agree to language next year in Copenhagen since it is “too optimistic,” as Pew’s Eileen Claussen said, to believe we will have a final cap and trade bill through Congress by then. If true, then we will fail in a promissory note floated by John Kerry, Al Gore, and others at last year’s UN climate change meeting in Bali to ...
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