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They crave for the history of strong growthIn these conditions we will see how goes the suiteThe false trade cooperation has developedThis derogation will last only until 2016The green economy professionals hold their breathWall Street analysts were riveted on January 20It fills in the summer to empty in the winterThere is no interest to do more than thatAt the right time to attack the French marketInstead of launching a second EPR nuclear reactorBarack Obama will not travel to Poznan. But his name will be at the heart of the debates, both are great expectations generated by his election to the supporters of the fight against climate change. "Barack Obama has been very clear on the fact that after eight years of obstruction, delay and denial, the United States will join the world community to fight this global challenge," said Democratic Senator John Kerry, future President of the commission of Foreign Affairs of the Senate, this, him, at the Conference. "The message that I will bring in Poznan will be: America is back", he added.
Obama himself recently sent a signal of an incredible voluntarism after eight years of "toxic" Bush, in a video message aired at a meeting on the climate in Los Angeles was organized by the Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. "This is the time to deal with this challenge once and for all." "The stakes are too high, the consequences too serious," he launched, addressing also the delegates of the Conference of Poznan, before to recall the main elements of its plan on renewable energy. It provides for the establishment of a market for emission rights of gases greenhouse with "encrypted annual goals. A binding system called "cap and trade", that will help reduce American emissions at their level of 1990 by 2020, then to reduce 80 by 2050. An unprecedented effort for an America that emits more than 20 of global greenhouse gases.
The Obama plan also plans to invest $ 150 billion in ten years in the development of renewable energy solar, wind, biofuels... to create 5 million new green jobs. Another objective, produce 10 of the electricity in the country by 2012 (and 25 by 2025) from these new energies. Energy including nuclear power, that the new President does not reject a priori, should also form part.
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Putting into circulation of a million hybrid cars by 2015, as the creation of a premium of 7,000 dollars for the purchase of any efficient car fuel or the introduction of more restrictive standards of consumption of the vehicles are also in the program.
Energy and environmental issues are closely linked. Obama means, oil its predecessor, as dependence on US to the à le son son réduire étant son son son réduire étant his reduce étant was freed within ten years of the Middle East and the Venezuela. On the other hand, while his Republican ex-rival John McCain wanted resumption of offshore drilling, it does not support even if he is not opposed to an increase in oil production, an approach that companies exploit the existing concessions or that make them.
Having said this, and despite its state of grace, will Obama impose a such turnaround in a country where political and industrial resistance to any binding system for reduction of CO2 emissions remain strong
This will take time, said Elliott Diringer, Pew Center, judge "unlikely that Congress adopt such a system before the Copenhagen Conference in December 2009. Barack Obama however has the support of a growing number of Governors on both sides and some industrial circles.