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简介：The U.S. is second only to China in emitting gases that cause global warming. Above, the smoke stacks at American Electric Power's Mountaineer power plant in West Virginia.




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U.N.
President Obama
cap-and-trade bill
Kevin Kennedy
the World Resources Institute
up-tick

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Nations of the world have been negotiating over climate treaties for almost 20 years, and so far there's been no discernable benefit to the atmosphere. It seemed just possible, at a U.N. meeting two years ago in Copenhagen, that there was a glimmer of hope. Nations weren't going for a binding treaty, but some pledged to take serious action anyway. President Obama stood before the tense meeting and promised that the United States would do its part. Almost all the major economies have put forward legitimate targets, significant targets, ambitious targets, and I'm confident that America will fulfill the commitments that we have made, cutting our emissions in the range of 17 percent by 2020 and by more than 80 percent by 2050 in line with final legislation. Ambitious targets, indeed, but listen again to the caveat at the end of his sentence. ...in line with final legislation. In other words, the promise to cut emissions was contingent on Congress passing an aggressive cap-and-trade bill. But that 2,000 page bill went into the trash instead of onto the president's desk. The great recession briefly achieved what Congress didn't - national emissions fell for a short time. But no longer, says Kevin Kennedy at the World Resources Institute. Starting in 2010 it looks like we're starting to see an up-tick again, and you would expect to see emissions continuing to increase, in a business as usual case, out to 2020.