{"id":1799,"date":"2009-12-15T13:52:48","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T20:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2009-12-15T13:59:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T20:59:23","slug":"al-gore-calls-for-40th-earthday-to-become-final-deadline-for-passage-of-u-s-climate-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=1799","title":{"rendered":"COP 15 &#8211; Al Gore calls for 40th Earthday to become final deadline for passage of U.S. climate bill."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/COP15\/Gore_9453.jpg\" alt=\"Copenhagen Harbor\" width=\"328\" height=\"449\" align=\"right\" style = \"padding-left:8px;\" \/>Copenhagen, December 15, 2009<\/p>\n<p>In an impassioned speech at the COP 15 today, Al Gore pushed for a successful political outcome in Copenhagen, to be followed by a final legal agreement in Mexico city in June or July next year. Although he said he was open to other price mechanisms for carbon, he argued that a globally coordinated carbon tax would be far more complicated than cap and trade.<\/p>\n<p>Gore also proposed making the 40th anniversary of the first Earthday to be set as the final deadline for the passage of a U.S. climate bill.<\/p>\n<p>report by James George<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Copenhagen, December 15, 2009 In an impassioned speech at the COP 15 today, Al Gore pushed for a successful political outcome in Copenhagen, to be followed by a final legal agreement in Mexico city in June or July next year. Although he said he was open to other price mechanisms for carbon, he argued that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1802,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions\/1802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}