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President George Bush today announced a new national goal to help tackle climate change: to stop the growth of US greenhouse gas emissions by 2025.
Bush, in a speech devoted to climate change, said power stations would need to reduce emission levels to well below previously projected targets.
But environmental campaigners complained it was all too little, too late: Bush has only nine months left in office. The other main criticism is that the goal is voluntary rather than mandatory: Bush calling for the development of new technologies to make it possible rather than the federal government threatening penalties for non-compliance.
Bush's 2025 goal follows a speech in 2002 in which he set targets only for 2012. He said today: 'To reach our 2025 goal, we will need to more rapidly slow the growth of power sector greenhouse gas emissions so that they peak within 10 to 15 years, and decline thereafter.
- By Gus Leonisky at 17 Apr 2008 - 8:06pm
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US climate change plan 'disastrous and Neanderthal'
US President George W Bush's plan to cap greenhouse gases by 2025 has been dismissed as "disastrous" and "Neanderthal" by some ministers at a climate change meeting in Paris.
Mr Bush has unveiled a plan to halt the growth of US emissions by 2025, which the US says is tougher than its previous goals.
But delegates at the ministerial-level meeting of major carbon emitters, including the US, Australia and the European Union (EU), were less than impressed.
Germany accused Mr Bush of turning back the clock to before last December's UN climate talks in Bali and even to before last July's G8 summit.
In a statement entitled "Bush's Neanderthal speech," German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel said: "His speech showed not leadership but losership. We are glad that there are also other voices in the United States."
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Gus: The great Losership... I like that... yes Bush is a fossil from an era of unbridled consumerism and exclusive inefficient luxury. Unfortunately he is a living fossil dinosaur and, on top of that, he is the leader of a powerful old fossil dinosaur group... His only redeeming feature is he is so incompetent that he has driven the US economy down the tube, reducing consumerism in that country by quite a notch, by accident. The major problem with that is that the poor and middle class bear the whole load while the rich get richer. meanwhile the banks write off. We eventually pay for it.