Frank Loy
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Frank E. Loy was undersecretary of state and chief U.S. climate-change negotiator in the second Clinton administration. A version of this essay appeared previously in the Suedeutsche Zeitung.
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Europe should push U.S. to more fully fund the Global Environment Facility 0
Posted 3 years, 7 months agoRecently, in Moscow, at the meeting of G8 Finance Ministers, the Europeans gave us a repeat performance of an all-too-familiar pattern: they appeased George Bush at the expense of the global environment.
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At last year's Gleneagles summit of the G8 industrialized nations, the G8 leaders, led by the Europeans, invested considerable political capital to find common ground on climate change. While they failed to persuade George Bush to agree on what arrangements should take the place of the Kyoto Protocol when it expires in… Read More