Independent: Bush prepares for 'greenwashing' climate summit

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For the first time in 16 years, a major environmental conference opens in Washington, hosted by the Bush administration. But no concrete results are expected, and that – say European participants – is the point of this high-level meeting.

Far from representing a Damascene conversion on climate change by President George Bush, the two-day gathering of the world's biggest polluting nations is aimed at undermining the UN's efforts to tackle global warming, say European sources. "The conference was called at very short notice," said one participant. "It's a cynical exercise in destabilising the UN process."

The gathering brings together foreign ministers – though not Britain's – as well as junior ministers and economic planners. It will be chaired by the President's chief environment adviser James Connaughton, who has a reputation equal only to that of the former adviser Karl Rove in the environmental movement. And when Mr Bush addresses the conference tomorrow, it will be to persuade the ever-growing number of Americans dismayed by the Bush policy of climate-change denial. His motive, participants say, is to blunt attempts by Democratic presidential candidates to attack the White House for blocking climate-change initiatives.

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[opihimoimoi]

1. I'm hoping this will be exposed to the point of action against stalling concerns

[madrchsod]

2. he will face the same response that he had at the un

silence