President Bush Convenes International Climate Summit
SmartPower Criticizes White House Summit’s Focus on Economy over Climate. (Washington, DC) Some of the world’s largest industrialized nation and some of the world’s developing nations also happen to be the world’s biggest polluters. But the majority of these same nations attending President Bush’s Energy Security and Climate Change Summit in Washington have maintained that their economies are more important than the pending disaster of global warming.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice preferred a solution to recommended climate change “that does not starve economies of the energy they need to grow and that does not widen the already significant income gap between developed and developing nations.” However, she advised the participating nations to set their own goals and priorities. There would be no admonishment or guidance from the White House.
“The early results from the White House Energy Security and Climate Change Summit have been disappointing,” stated Brian F.Keane, President of SmartPower. “A serious investment from all of these countries in clean, renewable energy would be both a serious investment in their respective economies and a serious effort to curb global warming. However, this seems to have been drowned out by their respective addictions to fossil fuels and thinking in a very old and tired box,” Keane concluded.
The White House Energy security and Climate Change Summit is competing this week with the Clinton Global Initiative. It will be interesting to see which event produces any actual results.
For more information on the White House Energy Security and Climate Change Summit, please visit:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/09/20070928-2.html
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