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Despite new leadership in the United States promising to cap the country’s greenhouse gas emissions, some environmental leaders say it is unlikely that an international climate treaty will pass in the next year.
During his campaign, U.S. president-elect Barack Obama supported a global cap-and-trade agreement for regulating his nation’s carbon emissions. As a result, many international observers are hoping the United States will agree to binding emissions-reduction targets at thehigh-profile climate change negotiations scheduled for December 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark.