The US Senate action cheered environmentalists and others in Bali clamouring for dramatic action to stop global warming. UN climate chief Yvo de Boer led off his daily briefing on Thursday by hailing the “encouraging sign” from the US.
“This is a very welcome development,” Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists said of the Senate measure. “It shows the increasing isolation of the Bush administration in terms of US policy on this issue.”
David Waskow, of the Oxfam humanitarian agency, said the Senate legislation was a positive signal to developing nations and others in Bali that America may be ready to assume a more active role in battling climate change.
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