Under the Bush Administration, the United States was long the pariah of international climate change efforts.
But climate change negotiators, looking towards the big Copenhagen meeting in December, have welcomed the Obama Administration’s willingness to tackle climate change. The new president’s stance on the subject at the G8 talks and the Major Economies Forum meeting in July was cause for optimism for various world leaders and climate officials.
The US Congress, however, isn’t necessarily going to match up to these high hopes, and as December draws near, other countries are showing signs of impatience.
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