Responding to the recent announcement by the U.S. on the New Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, Greenpeace issued the following statement.

Instead of proposing decisive action and reversing a two-term legacy of obstructing any meaningful progress on global warming, President Bush has once again offered more voluntary and non-binding proposals rather than hard science-based targets...

As the Bush administration launches an ambitious public relations campaign around energy issues this week, Greenpeace is calling on President Bush to take rational, necessary and sensible steps towards a clean and independent energy future.