The European Union on Wednesday unveiled its far-reaching negotiating platform ahead of this year's effort to find a successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol. American global warming guru Al Gore, though, thinks that leadership has to come from the US.
Wednesday was a busy day for the global climate. On one side of the Atlantic Ocean, the European Union unveiled its vision for what the next global climate deal should look like -- a deal that is set to be hammered out in much anticipated talks in Copenhagen at the end of December.
On the other, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing on climate change which could mark the first small step toward steering the US away from the head-in-the-sand policies pursued by the just-ended administration of George W. Bush. Al Gore, America's global warming Cassandra, was the hearing's star guest. And in his eagerness to urge the Senate to take action, Gore said that he didn't think the EU could play a leadership role when it comes to tackling the problem of climate change.
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