In the great tradition of American Indian treaties and promises to Russia not to extend NATO...
The United States and China unveiled ambitious targets Wednesday to reduce greenhouse gases, aiming to inject fresh momentum into the global fight against climate change ahead of a make-or-break treaty to be finalized next year.
President Barack Obama announced that the U.S. would move much faster in cutting pollution, with a goal to reduce by 26 percent to 28 percent by 2025, compared with 2005 levels.
alJazeera
According to a new report from Oil Change International, the world’s 20 largest economies are undermining their own calls to fight climate change. The report finds that G20 countries provided $88 billion in subsidies last year to help the fossil fuel industry find new oil, gas, and coal reserves to mine.
In 2009, G20 leaders agreed to phase out fossil fuel subsidies by 2020. But it’s clear that most countries are going in the opposite direction, especially the U.S. The government provided $2.6 billion in subsidies for exploration in 2009, which nearly doubled to $5.1 billion by 2013, thanks to a boom in domestic oil and gas production.
New Republic
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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