Well, good luck with that, Huck.Tony Blair will go over the head of President Bush tomorrow to appeal directly to US business leaders to back his plans for action on climate change.The prime minister flies to Davos in Switzerland tomorrow, where he will address the World Economic Forum of corporate executives and push his vision for tackling carbon emissions in the wake of the US refusal to sign the Kyoto protocol.
President Bush will not be present at the meeting, but it will give the PM a chance to argue for reductions face to face with some of the worst polluters on the planet whilst chairing the G8 group of industrialised nations.
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[Stephen Byers] told Sky News: "We have to accept the settled will of America is against Kyoto. Congress voted 96-0 against it, Democrats as well as Republicans."
"What we have got to do then is get the Americans, as part of the G8, to engage in international concerted effort to tackle global warming," he said.
Guardian article
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Bush's poodle off the leash
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