Obama's 'green Team' Raising Hopes For Post-kyoto Treaty

摘要

As serious negotiations on a new global treaty to fight global wanning get underway follow ing the adoption of a work programme at Poznan, environmentalists in the US have been given another reason to rejoice. Unveiling his energy-environment team, on 15 December, President-elect Barack Obama rolled out a group of people with sterling records in promoting legislation to tackle climate change. If Obama's new 'green dream team' can act quickly and effectively at home as he wants, it will crank up the pressure on other governments to make binding commitments.