The timing of the announcement is perfect

The timing of the announcement is perfect. Saturday, the eve of the start of the international negotiations on climate change held traditionally in Bonn in the spring, the US President Barack Obama proposed the creation of an "energy and climate forum". This process of informal discussions between 17 major economies will be held late April in Washington and in July, on the sidelines of the G8 Summit in La Maddalena in Italy. This forum should be used to "facilitate a frank dialogue between the major developed countries and developing, help create the political conditions necessary to achieve a result in the negotiations on climate change at the UN due to meet in December in Copenhagen," says the White House. Invited countries include the Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the European Union, the France, the Germany, the India, the Japan, the Russia, the South Africa, the United Kingdom. The US President takes the format of the "major emitters meetings", created by George w. Bush, but who did had produced nothing concrete, if this is to facilitate meetings between Western and large developing countries.

2,000 negotiators in Bonn

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