Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate Change

taking climate action than the Bush administration had been.

After the collapse of Copenhagen, the Obama administration had already started to convene a thing that they called the Major Economies Forum.

And this was a forum of the biggest emitters in the world.

And the logic behind it was, if we can get all of the biggest emitters into a room and we can get them to talk sensibly about what they can each do... then that will actually deal with the bulk of the problem of climate change.