Either we're going to create the necessary momentum right now... leading into Copenhagen to galvanize a legitimate globa...
America understands that we have an obligation to lead, as the historical largest emitter.
The message is clear. America is no more likely to enter into a legally binding global solution in 2009 than it was back...
A robust American partnership with China will do more than anything else to ensure a successful global response to the u...
Our words and our actions will set the tone.
Together we are, today, responsible for nearly half of all global climate greenhouse gas emissions.
I'm willing to bet any of my colleagues in the United States Senate that if we don't get our act together significantly ...
America is the world's largest historical emitter of greenhouse gases that cause climate change.
China recently passed us to become the world's No. 1 current emitter.
China needs to understand, point blank, that if America went to zero tomorrow, China has the ability to obliterate every...
Earlier this year, while America spent $80 billion in green stimulus measures, the largest such investment in our histor...
for the protection of individual rights and freedoms.
the United States must curb its emissions if the world is to avoid the worst effects of climate change.
If we do establish barriers at the border as part of our cap-and-trade legislation, I think that will be seen by many in...
The United States absolutely should not adopt a posture of waiting for China before undertaking its own emissions reduct...
President Obama began very early on, even before he took office, to talk about green energy and a clean energy future fo...
United States refusal to act will absolutely not persuade China to agree to international commitments.
The United States should not wait for China and should act regardless of China's commitment at Copenhagen.
