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For Immediate Release
12/03/2007
Pelosi: Bali Conference Offers Bush Another Chance to Engage World Leaders on Global Warming
Washington,
D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following
statement today, the first day of the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change in Bali, Indonesia. Thousands of delegates
from more than 180 countries around the world are attending the 11-day
conference on climate change.
“The Bali conference offers
the Bush Administration another opportunity to actively and constructively
engage with the world’s leaders and achieve an international agreement that
will reduce the greenhouse gas and other emissions that cause global warming.
“Given the threat to our future and our children, there is
no excuse for President Bush to allow the United States to remain the only
major industrial power in the world that refuses to sign on to an international
effort to combat the climate crisis.
With every day the Administration delays, we move another day closer to
a time when climate change will become irreversible.
“Here at home, the New Direction Congress will soon pass
comprehensive energy security legislation that will cut carbon emissions while
making America
more energy independent and reducing prices for consumers. I urge President Bush to sign our energy
security bill and work with Congress on additional legislation that will
further reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
“The Bush Administration must reassert America’s moral leadership in the world by
getting off the sidelines and working with world leaders at Bali
to combat the climate crisis.”