Mes : julio 2007

en Estados Unidos, Personalidades, Recursos Naturales

Al Gore: Estados Unidos debe ratificar el Protocolo de Kyoto

Dice Al Gore,

To this end, we should demand that the United States join an international treaty within the next two years that cuts global warming pollution by 90 percent in developed countries and by more than half worldwide in time for the next generation to inherit a healthy Earth.

This treaty would mark a new effort. I am proud of my role during the Clinton administration in negotiating the Kyoto protocol. But I believe that the protocol has been so demonized in the United States that it probably cannot be ratified here – much in the way the Carter administration was prevented from winning ratification of an expanded strategic arms limitation treaty in 1979. Moreover, the negotiations will soon begin on a tougher climate treaty.

Al Gore, “Moving Beyond Kyoto” (The Washingon Post)