Bush Greenwash Climate Meeting Underway In Hawaii - BBC

Climate experts from 16 of the world's largest economies are in Hawaii for the second in the series of President Bush's Major Economies Meetings. They will be looking to forge common ground between "old" emitters like the US and Europe and the "new" polluters, such as China and India.

The meeting aims to feed ideas into the UN climate negotiations process. The EU had threatened to boycott the talks unless the US offered specific proposals rather than general talks.

Since then, the US has passed its Energy Bill that mandates big (Ed. - sic) increases in efficiency from cars and from some appliances. But the US is still resisting a global agreement on specific emissions reductions from all developed nations.

EU delegates at the meeting in Honolulu do not anticipate any major moves by the Bush administration on climate change. Some believe he is primarily trying to neutralise climate as an issue in the forthcoming US elections.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7217354.stm