The responsibility of the US and China

Even if the US and China failed to reach an agreement on climate protection it's important that the two countries at least talk about it, the Financial Times Deutschland writes, because the question "of whether global warming can be restricted to an acceptable level won't be decided in Copenhagen but in negotiations between China and the US. This is why it is a step forward that the heads of government Hu Jintao and Barack Obama at least spoke out in favour of a basis for a binding agreement at their tête-à-tête summit. … Although the US has generated the largest amounts of greenhouse gases so far, making the world's impatience for it to reach internal agreement about climate legislation understandable, in the future it will be the emerging nations who produce the bulk of emissions, and in particular China." 

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