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Bush to Skip U.N. Talks on Global Warming
by nvrgnbk inbush to skip u.n. talks on global warming by steven lee myerspublished: september 24, 2007washington, sept. 23 dozens of world leaders are to gather at the united nations on monday for a full agenda of talks on how to fight global warming, and president bush is skipping all the days events but the dinner.. his focus instead is on his own gathering of leaders in washington later this week, a meeting with the same stated goal, a reduction in the emissions blamed for climate change, but a fundamentally different idea of how to achieve it.mr.
bushs aides say that the parallel meeting does not compete against the united nations process hijacking it, as his critics charge.
they say that mr. bush hopes to persuade the nations that produce 90 percent of the worlds emissions to come to a consensus that would allow each, including the united states, to set its own policies rather than having limits imposed by binding international treaty.. its our philosophy that each nation has the sovereign capacity to decide for itself what its own portfolio of policies should be, said james l. connaughton, the presidents chief environmental adviser.
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