UN: Bush should take lead on global warming

(Washington, D.C.) The UN's secretary-general is pushing President Bush to assume a stronger leadership role in talks on a new pact to combat global warming. During December talks in Bali on climate change, the U.S. changed its stance on the issue and joined 190 nations in agreeing to negotiate a new pact by late 2009. Following a visit with Bush at the Oval Office on the issue of global warming, Ban Ki-moon told the president, quote, "I count on your leadership and active participation." The Bali talks seek to tie all countries to emission curbs beginning in the year 2013.

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