Source:
ReutersClimate talks draw world's biggest polluters
By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S.-sponsored meeting of major emitting countries is aimed at supporting and accelerating the U.N. process on climate change, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice insisted on Thursday.
Skeptics, including dozens of protesters gathered outside the U.S. conference, have expressed concern the climate meeting might be an attempt to circumvent the United Nations process.
But in opening a two-day session at the State Department, Rice said the United States "supports the goals" of a U.N. summit on climate earlier this week "and we want this year's U.N. climate change conference in Indonesia to succeed."
- snip -
About 60 protesters, many of them from Greenpeace and other environmental groups, chanted anti-Bush administration slogans and held up placards outside the State Department while diplomatic security formed a line preventing them from getting into the building.
Read more:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070927/ts_nm/climate_usa_dc