{"id":1187,"date":"2009-10-01T13:46:34","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T18:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2009-10-01T13:46:34","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T18:46:34","slug":"report-from-bangkok-looking-for-the-u-s-to-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2009\/10\/01\/report-from-bangkok-looking-for-the-u-s-to-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Report from Bangkok: Looking for the U.S. to Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDF&#8217;s Gus Silva-Chavez is <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climatetalks\">blogging from the global climate negotiations<\/a> in Bangkok. Yesterday, he <strong>sent a big thank-you <\/strong>to Senators Boxer and Kerry for getting work started on the Senate version of the climate bill:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whatever else you can say about the draft bill that Senators Boxer and Kerry introduced in the Senate yesterday, it was welcome news to country negotiators and NGOs at the climate talks in Bangkok.<\/p>\n<p>For several weeks the main question everyone has been asking me is \u201cWhat\u2019s the next U.S. move and when will it happen?\u201d Now I can give them an answer \u2013 Senators introduced draft climate and energy legislation. Today.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climatetalks\/2009\/10\/01\/thanks-from-bangkok-khob-khun-krub-boxer-kerry\/\">Continue \u00bb <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This echoes the call for U.S. leadership <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2009\/10\/01\/message-from-governors-summit-u-s-must-act\/\">from the governor&#8217;s summit in California<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2009\/06\/17\/new-climate-report-life-in-a-very-different-united-states\/\">scientific urgency<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/article.cfm?contentID=10453\">public opinion<\/a> and global path are all in place &#8212; now it&#8217;s up to the Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDF&#8217;s Gus Silva-Chavez is blogging from the global climate negotiations in Bangkok. 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