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Obama's Backing Raises New Hopes For Global Pact On Climate Change

 

Published 3/1/2009 by The Huffington Post News Team at Green on HuffingtonPost.com

But within weeks of taking office, President Obama has radically shifted the global equation, placing the United States at the forefront of the international climate effort and raising hopes that an effective international accord might be possible. Mr. Obama's chief climate negotiator, Todd Stern, said last week that the United States would be involved in the negotiation of a new treaty -- to be signed in Copenhagen in December -- "in a robust way." (link)

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