Climate Has Changed for Climate Negotiations

Officials linked to negotiations for an international agreement about climate are living in a moment of changes in the climate: Barack Obama’s administration did a 180° turn on the American position about the topic when it included profits from a future carbon control system in its oficial budget. In fact, it means that the United States is heading into the Kyoto Protocol.

The protocol that never became a reality as it was not signed by the United States but is about to be replaced by another agreement that is in the process of being written. At a meeting in China as a preparatory reunion for the big meeting late this year in Copenhagen, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton released a new cooperative attitude from the U.S.

An agreement post-Kyoto won’t be done this year but hope increases among environmentalists and those involved in the negotiations. The “New York Times” has published an article about the change in climate among folks interested in climate change.