«President Bush on Wednesday said that the United States should halt the growth in greenhouse gases by 2025, his first specific goal on the nation's emissions.
The remarks come after increasing pressure from the corporate sector for some kind of federal effort regarding climate change.
Bush said that he supports "realistic goals" of curbing carbon-dioxide emissions, but cautioned that the "wrong way is to raise taxes, duplicate mandates or demand sudden and drastic emissions cuts that have no chance of being realized."
Ahead of a Major Economies Meeting in Paris, the president reiterated his opposition to the global Kyoto Protocol, but said that he'd support talks to move beyond it.» (ver mais aqui)
Bush está a ser pressionado pela crescente verdura do mundo dos negócios, que pragmaticamente vê oportunidades de negócio onde outros vêem infernos ou céus (o que é a mesma coisa). Ainda recentemente num gather together da nata ianque dos negócios «General Electric Co.'s CEO and Chairman Jeffrey Immelt, attendees of The Wall Street Journal's Economics conference on creating environmental capital kicked off with a rollicking debate on energy, technology and regulation, raising plenty of divergent views.
But one theme quickly emerged: Inaction is unacceptable. Failure in the environmental arena means forfeiting a leading U.S. role in a rapidly growing global industry. And time is running short.
We live today in a certain kind of hell where nothing is getting done," Immelt told a room packed with 300 of the nation's top corporate leaders and venture capitalists.
Immelt's warning to other CEOs on capping carbon emissions was blunt. "The day it becomes law, you're five years late." (ver mais aqui)
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