The world is reacting to the election of President-elect Obama. I understand that Europeans, Nelson Mandela, Kenyans, Mexico and elsewhere (to name a few) were thrilled by the opportunities presented by a change in leadership in the US and the election of Obama.
As a tax-deductible, non-partisan organization, NRDC did not endorse specific candidates. But now that the election has been decided, NRDC and our partner groups are prepared to work with President-elect Obama and the new Congress to restore America's leadership in international global warming negotiations (as I discussed earlier). So the international global warming community was also reacting positively to his election. Here are some snippets from around the "international climate world":
Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change:
R K Pachauri, Chairman of the Nobel Prize Winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change:
Marthinus van Schalkwyk, South African Environment Minister:
Connie Hedegaard, Denmark's Climate Change Minister (Denmark will host the climate negotiations in December 2009 where negotiators agreed to reach a new accord):
Penny Wong, Australia's Climate Change Minister:
Frances Beinecke, President of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC):
So, a number of key international climate players are pushing for US leadership on international efforts to solve global warming. See, it isn't just me calling for "American Leadership".
If I missed some important comments from international climate leaders then send them my way and I'll update the post with interesting new quotes.
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This was cross-posted at: THE ENVIRONMENTALIST