"I urge the delegates in Bali to be bold and strong. Nothing less will save our planet for our grandchildren," said U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer in a statement which was distributed in Bali, a resort island of Indonesia, which is hosting a two-week U.N. climate change conference.
Boxer, a Democrat in California, who is also Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, said in the statement on the U.N. climate change conference in Bali, that "As Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, I want the delegates in Bali to know that change is already happening in Washington."
"The historic vote in the Environment Committee on Dec. 5 to send the Liberman Warner Climate Security Act to the full Senate for consideration signals a rapidly growing commitment, in Congress and across America, to capping our greenhouse gas emissions so that we can avoid the dangerous consequences of inaction."
"Our work this week in Washington on an Energy Bill also reflects the high priority we have placed on addressing global warming," he said.
"As the clock ticks down on the Bush Administration, it is clear that the Congress believes strongly in action to establish a mandatory cap and trade system to reduce our emissions of the pollution that causes global warming and avoid dangerous climate change," he said.
The Environment and Public Works Committee voted Dec. 5 to send to the full Senate far-reaching legislation that would set mandatory cuts in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and would establish a comprehensive, economy-wide cap-and-trade program for greenhouse gas emission
Scientific report showed that greenhouse gases which come primarily from the burning of fossil were blamed for accelerating global warming, which causes melting glaciers and rising sea levels.
The ongoing U.N climate change conference is tasked with drawing up a "roadmap" for negotiations on a new climate deal in the next two years before the current phase of the 1997 Kyoto protocol expires in 2012.
The Protocol requires 36 industrial countries to reduce to reduce greenhouse gas emissions below levels specified for each of them. Overall, this should amount to reductions of at least 5 percent below 1990 levels between 2008 and 2012.
The United States, the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, is the only industrialized country that does not ratify the protocol so far.
Source: Xinhua
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