o'sovereignty - COP15 in Copenhagen, DK (December '09) [o'cap'n tax]

US trying to reach its deadline.  The US administration has not given up trying to get approval of its climate policy in the Senate before the UN climate conference in December.

Marianne Bom, 29/10/2009 09:55, COP15
http://en.cop15.dk/news/view+news?newsid=2454
(Photo of White House adviser on energy and environment Carol Browner: Scanpix/Reuters)

Time is running short, but it is still possible for the US administration to get a political mandate from the Senate before the UN climate conference in Copenhagen in December, says White House adviser on energy and environment, Carol Browner.
"This administration from day one has been about taking action and we are still working very, very hard to get a bill out of the Senate," she says, according to Bloomberg.
Carol Browner thinks it is still possible for the Senate to pass energy and climate legislation this year, even as a debate over the US healthcare system dominates the congressional calendar.
"We haven’t given up trying," she says. "There are still windows where time could come available…We feel very, very confident that we can work with the rest of the world to take significant steps forward in Copenhagen," Browner said in an interview.
On Tuesday, US President Barack Obama's Senate allies launched a major push behind sweeping legislation to battle climate change.
"Today, we begin the formal legislative process to lead the world in rolling back the urgent threat of climate change," said Democratic Senator John Kerry, the lead author of a Senate bill to create a "cap-and-trade" regime, according to AFP.
In an opinion piece in the New York Times, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon this week wrote that the leadership of the United States is vital.
"We cannot afford another period where the United States stands on the sidelines," Ban Ki-moon emphasized, adding that an "indecisive or insufficiently engaged" US will result in unnecessary and unaffordable delays in tackling global warming.

Read more: http://en.cop15.dk/news/view+news?newsid=2454
• Bloomberg: U.S. Is Confident of Progress in Climate Negotiations
• UN News Centre: Ban lays out criteria for successful Copenhagen gathering on climate change
• AFP via YahooNews: Obama launches climate push with December goal
• Cop15.dk: Barack Obama steps into the ring
• Cop15.dk: US stalemate awaiting congressional treatment of the climate bill
• Washington Post: Economics of climate change in forefront

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