| US Says No Plans to Sign New Climate Change Pacts
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The United States, considered an environmental laggard by its critics, is unlikely to sign any new pacts on climate change at a key environmental meeting this month, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday.
Signatories to the Kyoto Protocol on climate change will meet between Dec. 6-17 in Buenos Aires, where many environmentalists hope new far-reaching targets will be made.
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But the United States, which backed out of the Kyoto agreement, feels it is too early to assign post 2012 targets, senior U.S. climate negotiator Harlan Watson told reporters.
He said the United States had many bilateral and multilateral partnerships on climate change and spent billions of dollars on related research but did not expect to make new pacts at the meeting in Argentina. |
 What is it, a secret what the U.S. intends to do to clean up after itself? Are they waiting for some glorious unveiling ceremony? If there are legitimate hold-ups, for goodness sake just tell us! Otherwise we're forced to conclude that the fate of the planet is of secondary importance to politicians who server #1 first: themselves. | |
