The US remains determined to lead the world to a new global deal on climate change, Steven Chu, the energy secretary, said yesterday.
Even if China and other developing countries are reluctant to make commitments at December's UN climate change conference in Copenhagen, “President Obama has made it clear that the US should act first,” Mr Chu said. “Using China as a reason not to act is no longer an option.”
Mr Chu, who won the Nobel Physics Prize in 1997, was speaking to journalists after arriving in London for a meeting to discuss climate change with more than 20 fellow Nobel laureates and dozens of other experts.
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