Responding to George Bush's speech at the Major Economies Meeting on Energy Security and Climate Change in Washington today (28th September), John Sauven, Executive director of Greenpeace UK said:
"We have 100 months for global CO2 emissions to peak and then start declining rapidly. Bush's attempt to derail the UN process must not be allowed to succeed. Voluntary goals set on a national basis are absolutely useless at delivering the kind of global emissions cuts needed to tackle climate change. George Bush has been forced to accept that climate change is the biggest issue in town – but we've yet to see any action from the US that matches the either scale of the threat or the obese size of their own CO2 emissions."
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