Study: China and US Should Hold Climate Change Summit By End of 2009
Saturday, February 28, 2009 9:42David Sandalow and Kenneth Lieberthal have issued a report that the US and China should come together to discuss climate change by the end of 2009.
The United States and China should hold a summit featuring an agreement on climate change, helping to create international support for a new global pact by the end of 2009,
A summit between Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao featuring clean energy and curtailing greenhouse gases as one of the major issues would help surmount domestic misgivings in each country and lift hopes for agreeing a successor to the current Kyoto Protocol by the end of 2009, Lieberthal said in Beijing.
In principal, I would agree, but I am still left to question why it needs to wait a potential 10 months before the first meeting? Why not next month, or on Earth Day. Both leaders have publicy committed more than anyone before them their commitment to the subject… and nearly everyone in the international community is waiting for the US and China to come together.
