"If I were a business man I would say “please please please do a deal in Copenhagen, and please please please make it market based"," said De Boer, speaking on the second day of the Copenhagen climate change summit . "Because if we fail to get a market based deal here and if the US Senate fails to pass cap and trade legislation then the EPA will be obliged to regulate.
EPA ruling will push US towards deal: De Boer
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo De Boer says that the EPA's decision to regulate greenhouse gases will help push US business and political leaders into supporting an ambitious deal on climate emissions and domestic cap and trade legislation.
8 December 2009 15:38 GMT
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