It's put climate change leaders in a variety of
key positions, made climate change a priority in initiatives in departments and agencies, revitalized the US Global Change Research Program and other interagency efforts, working with other major
emitting countries, both industrialized and developing, to build technology cooperation and individual and joint climate policies consistent with avoiding the unmanageable, and is working with Congress — and this is the toughest part really — working with Congress to get comprehensive energy and climate legislation that will put us on a responsible emissions trajectory.
By 2012, the plants in three
key countries - China, India, and the United States - are expected to
emit as much as an extra 2.7 billion tons of carbon dioxide, according to a Monitor analysis of power - plant construction data.