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A Jolly Good Time British prime minister chats climate with Bush		17 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 3:25 PM on 17 Apr 2008 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was in Washington, D.C., Thursday to sit down for a chit-chat with President Bush. Brown told press that he and Bush "agreed we must work internationally to secure progress at the G8 and toward a post-Kyoto deal on climate change. ... I look forward to continuing to work with President Bush and his administration in taking it forward." (Taking what forw ...
Topics: biofuels, climate, George Bush, Gordon Brown, international politics, news, politics, presidential race 08, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Hey, Look Over There! U.S., avoiding action at current climate meeting, announces new climate meeting		06 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 3:38 PM on 06 Dec 2007 President Bush has announced a climate-change meeting in Hawaii next month for 17 of the world's major greenhouse-gas emitters to talk about setting goals for curbing emissions. The meeting is a follow-up to an anticlimactic summit that Bush hosted in late September. Oddly enough, during the pivotal climate-change meeting going on in Bali right this red-hot minu ...
Topics: climate, George Bush, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, news, politics (all these topics)

Bush climate summit: Greenwashing vs. myth-busting Foreign media take a more discerning look at Bush's climate meetings this week	Joseph Romm	29 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Once again, the foreign media is not fooled by Bush's PR stunt, while the U.S. media buys the White House line. The U.K.'s The Independent labeled this a 'Greenwashing Climate Summit' in its headline, and opened their story with: For the first time in 16 years, a major environmental conference opens in Washington, hosted by the Bush administration. But no concrete results are expected, and that -- say European participants -- is the point of this high-level meeting. ...
Topics: climate, energy, George Bush, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Man on Emissions U.S. summit concludes with no progress to speak of		28 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 5:47 PM on 28 Sep 2007 At the conclusion of a two-day U.S.-hosted climate summit of the world's major emitters, George W. Bush announced that he's been faking his climate-change laggardness all along, and signed on to reduce greenhouse gases in various planet-saving-while-still-economy-boosting ways. Ha ha ha! Sob. No, just as expected, Bush said what he always says -- voluntary measures will save the world! goals are ...
Topics: climate, dumbassery , George Bush, international politics, news, politics (all these topics)

Bush's climate summit: What's needed Terry Tamminen and Stewart J. Hudson tell Bush how to make his climate meeting a success	Grist	25 Sep 2007	Gristmill
The following is a guest post from Terry Tamminen and Stewart J. Hudson. Tamminen is the Cullman Senior Climate Policy Fellow at the New America Foundation. His latest book is Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction. Hudson is president of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, and co-chair of the U.S. Climate and Energy Funders Group. Preparations for President Bush's Sept. 27-28 summit of world leaders on climate change are underway and will determine how ...
Topics: climate, George Bush, international politics, politics, Terry Tamminen (all these topics)

Bush to world: Nothing up my sleeve Bush's climate summit promises no change in U.S. stance	Joseph Romm	24 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Bush may be hosting a climate summit this week, but 'what he will not do, officials said, is chart any shift in policies.' Specifically, the Washington Post reports: Top Bush administration officials said the president is not planning to alter his opposition to mandatory limits on greenhouse gases or to stray from his emphasis on promoting new technologies, especially for nuclear power and for the storage of carbon dioxide produced by coal plants. This is ...
Topics: climate, George Bush, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Agree to disagree Bush parallel climate meetings intended to avoid binding treaty	David Roberts	24 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Bush is blowing off the U.N. climate meeting happening this week, choosing instead to focus on his parallel international climate meetings. I ask you to savor the multiple absurdities embedded in this paragraph in the NYT: Mr. Bush's aides say that the parallel meeting does not compete against the United Nations' process -- hijacking it, as his critics charge. They say that Mr. Bush hopes to persuade the nations that produce 90 percent of the world's emissions to ...
Topics: climate, George Bush, international politics, politics (all these topics)

We'd Blame Jet Lag, But ... Bush makes gaffes at APEC gathering, forum may set weak voluntary targets		07 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 5:01 PM on 07 Sep 2007 In Sydney, Australia, today at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, U.S. President George Bush referred to APEC as OPEC, then tried to cover up his gaffe by explaining that Australia's prime minister had invited him to a summit of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries next year. Unfortunately, Australia has never been part of OPEC. Bush also ...
Topics: climate, dumbassery , George Bush, international politics, news, politics (all these topics)

Bush pushes climate meeting, shuns solution Again	Joseph Romm	03 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Kind of a good news, bad news story: President George W. Bush has invited the European Union, the United Nations and 11 other countries to the September 27-28 meeting in Washington to work toward setting a long-term goal by 2008 to cut emissions. Yet it turns out just to be a meeting full of sound and fury, signifying nothing: 'But a senior U.S. official said the administration stood by its opposition to mandatory economy-wide caps.' A meeting aimed at (1) ...
Topics: climate, George Bush, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Bush's 'new climate strategy' Shockingly, it's the same as the old climate strategy	David Roberts	31 May 2007	Gristmill
Today's headlines are full of the news that President Bush is "unveiling a new climate strategy." If your immediate reaction is cynicism, well ... looks like you learned something over the last seven years. Let's look a little closer. In a speech today, Bush said he wants to convene a series of meetings of the 15 major GHG emitting countries to hammer out 'global emissions goals.' To give credit where it's due, there is considerable symbolic significance ...
Topics: climate, George Bush, international politics, politics (all these topics)

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