Countries around the world have seen the issue of climate change become one of the most important issues in modern history. Protestors and activists have taken to chimneystacks and rooftops to draw attention to the issue leading up to the all important United Nations summit on climate change in Copenhagen this December.
European nations have long been looking for ways to reduce their carbon efforts and EU regulations, as well as those self-imposed by individual nations, have gone a long way to reduce the carbon footprint being made in the European Union. One country that has been seemingly slow and reluctant to act on climate change is the one that creates the most carbon emissions of any country in the world, and recently leaders from the EU traveled there to inquire as to why.
EU leaders traveled to the United States to pressure President Barack Obama to move more quickly on the issue of climate change. A little more than a month away from the climate change summit, these leaders demand more climate change action from the country seen as doing the most damage to the environment. The EU sent its top diplomats to Washington to sit down with Barack Obama to gauge whether or not the United States could be counted as an ally in the ‘war against global warming’. Going into the meeting these leaders were pessimistic that many of the lofty goals discussed in the summit will actually happen, but emerged optimistic that the US will do its part.
The diplomats were encouraged by Barack Obama and said that they were confident that the US would play a vital role in the future of carbon emissions. India and China have been reluctant to act on emissions unless the US does so first.
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