
Bush clarified that this goal would be "long-term" and that it would only be set at the end of 2008 to be applied from 2012, when the Kyoto Protocol ends, from which the president himself withdrew his country years ago. But he also recognized the validity of the problem, something he had done so far with droppers. "My proposal is this: by the end of next year, the United States and other countries will set a long-term global goal for the reduction of greenhouse gases," he explained, and included in his proposal the European powers, China, India, Brazil, Australia, South Africa and South Korea, among others. (Source: La Nación)