MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator...
traditions and convince billions of energy users, who are also taxpayers, to stop wasting energy. Any politician who dares to do this may face political suicide, which makes the choice especially difficult.This is why all presidents and prime ministers from industrialized countries made only such promises in Copenhagen as would not damage their careers or health. Strangely, many people expected a miracle from U.S. President Barack Obama. Indeed, he is a hero compared to his predecessor, George W. Bush, who never attended international climate change meetings.
However, Obama"s promise to cut his country"s CO2 emissions by 17% by 2020 is unrealistic, because the United States takes the 2005 level of emissions as the point of departure. However, its cuts will be only 4% compared to 1990, the starting point accepted in the EU, which has promised to cut its CO2 emissions by 20% and possibly even 30% if the emerging nations, the U.S., China and India make commensurate
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