CLIMATE POLICY WILL WITHER WHOEVER WINS U.S. ELECTIONS

Environment will wither whoever win US election - Times Online

Even the Royal Family has got involved, with the Prince of Wales lobbying Congress and the White House on the issue. Mr Obama will send observers to the climate change conference in Poland in December and Susan Rice, his foreign policy adviser, told The Times: “This will remain one of our priorities.”

John Ashton, the British special representative on climate change, said: “We’ll have to fight harder.”

The British Embassy in Washington said that extra staff had been hired to prepare for a new offensive on climate change. “Both candidates are talking about the energy crisis, and that is encouraging. We have to be very focused on the benefits that green jobs can bring. The economic turbulence will mean people focusing very hard on whether they can afford to do it — we will say they cannot afford not to.”

(Via Benny Peiser)