Rick Allen: “The interesting thing, to me, is how much different countries are trying to make sure that these international goals…”

“The interesting thing, to me, is how much different countries are trying to make sure that these international goals that are being talked about more elsewhere than here in the United States somehow fit their own countries and their own experience. And that is basically what you would expect. But what is true, I think, from this experience and from others is that most other countries realize that the climate is changing fast; that it is due to human emissions, carbon emissions in particular, and that, and this is where the United States is not following, that we need to do something about it. We need to do something fairly serious quickly. It is clear that the Europeans are taking the lead in a number of renewable energy technologies, wind and solar and small hydro and others, and we are being left behind.”