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US puts climate debate on hold for five weeks despite plea by
Merkel
Suzanne Goldenbergand Damian
Carrington
London
Guardian
Wednesday, Nov 4th, 2009
International negotiators lost one of the key
elements to a successful deal on global warming today after
Democratic leaders in the US Congress ruled out passing a climate
change law before 2010. In the latest obstacle on the road to
the UN summit in Copenhagen next month, Senate leaders ordered
a five-week pause to review the costs of the legislation.
The delay, which would push a Senate vote on a climate change
bill into next year, frustrates a last-minute push by the German
chancellor, Angela Merkel, and the UN secretary general, Ban
Ki-moon, to get America to commit itself at home to cut greenhouse
gas emissions before the Copenhagen meeting. World leaders –
and US officials – have repeatedly said US legislation
is crucial to a deal on global warming.
Merkel used a historic address to a joint session of Congress
today to urge America to act on climate change, stating that
success at Copenhagen rested on the willingness of all countries
to accept binding reductions in carbon emissions.
The first German leader to ever address both houses of Congress,
Merkel said a deal was comparable in importance to the tearing
down of the Berlin wall 20 years ago. "We need the readiness
of all countries to accept internationally binding obligations,"
she said to loud applause from Democrats. Republicans largely
sat in silence. "There is no doubt about it. In December,
the world will look to us: the Europeans and the Americans.
I am convinced once we … show ourselves ready to adopt
binding agreements we will also be able to persuade China and
India."
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