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Bush Seeks New Image on Global Warming
Sep 29, 3:41 AM (ET)
By JOHN HEILPRIN
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush's call on Friday for a new fund to reduce global warming fell flat with Europeans and environmentalists who say U.N.-mandated cuts in greenhouse gases are what's needed.
To show he meant business, Bush designated his treasury secretary to talk to other nations about getting worldwide contributions to the fund. The money would pay for clean-energy projects in poor countries.
"This here was a great step for the Americans and a small step for mankind," Germany's environment minister, Sigmar Gabriel, said after Bush's speech at the State Department before representatives of the nations that are the world's biggest emitters of greenhouse gases. "In substance, we are still far apart."
In his speech, Bush acknowledged that climate change is real and that human activity is a factor.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070929/D8RV04EO0.html
Sep 29, 3:41 AM (ET)
By JOHN HEILPRIN
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush's call on Friday for a new fund to reduce global warming fell flat with Europeans and environmentalists who say U.N.-mandated cuts in greenhouse gases are what's needed.
To show he meant business, Bush designated his treasury secretary to talk to other nations about getting worldwide contributions to the fund. The money would pay for clean-energy projects in poor countries.
"This here was a great step for the Americans and a small step for mankind," Germany's environment minister, Sigmar Gabriel, said after Bush's speech at the State Department before representatives of the nations that are the world's biggest emitters of greenhouse gases. "In substance, we are still far apart."
In his speech, Bush acknowledged that climate change is real and that human activity is a factor.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070929/D8RV04EO0.html