NPR: It's Global Warming Week in America

It's Global Warming Week in America

If you're interested in global warming, this is the week to pay attention to the news.

Starting with a meeting today at the United Nations in New York, there will be a series of gatherings designed to confront the problems created by global warming — like the news that the Arctic polar ice cap retreated farther this summer than apparently any other time in more than a hundred years — and find political solutions. Today's gathering, designed to coincide with the opening of the U.N. General Assembly, will include representatives of more than 150 countries.

On Wednesday, the Clinton Global Initiative will bring together business and international political leaders for three days to discuss "grass-roots" solutions to global warming. Then on Thursday, President Bush will host the leaders of the world's top carbon-emitting countries, including India and China. (Some critics have charged that Bush is trying to upstage the U.N. meeting, but his supporters deny it.)

All these meetings come just a few days after 200 governments agreed at a U.N. conference in Montreal to speed up a treaty to phase out hydrochlorofluorocarbons, chemicals that harm the ozone layer.

12:12 PM ET | 09-24-2007 | permalink

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