An interim climate treaty may be hashed out at Copenhagen next month due to failure of other measures to pass.
World leaders were hoping to negotiate a replacement for the expiring Kyoto Protocol in Copenhagen, but it appears that America's failure to pass aggressive "cap-and-trade" measures are dooming the talks. On top of that, the global recession has soured many nations on passing further restrictions on greenhouse gases from power plants and businesses. "Well, America gets a lot of the blame on this, but the reality is that the European nations that signed onto the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and promised to reduce emissions...haven't reduced their emissions...," reports Ben Lieberman, policy analyst with The Heritage Foundation. "And in fact, several European nations have had emissions rising faster than those in the U.S., so the U.S. is doing better outside of these international U.N. treaties than many of the signatories are." Lieberman adds that most Americans are more concerned with the economy than with climate change, and he believes that will further hamper the chances of passage for cap-and-trade legislation.
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