Climate:
El-Ashry, Claussen, Wallstrom discuss road to Copenhagen, prospects for an agreement
With less than two months until the Copenhagen climate talks, will the meeting be considered a success? And if it is not, who will be to blame? During today's E&ETV Event Coverage, climate experts, Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change and Strategies for the Global Environment, Margot Wallstrom, vice president of the European Commission, and Mohamed El-Ashry, a senior fellow with the UN Foundation, give their take on the United States' role in the upcoming negotiations and discuss prospects for the Copenhagen meeting and beyond. The panelists also discuss the various approaches to negotiating a deal.