Legislators urge carbon emissions cuts

Legislators from the world's largest carbon dioxide (CO2 ) emitting countries met on 14–15 February in Washington, D.C., to discuss the future of the global climate and strategies to mitigate temperature increases resulting from global warming. The world faces a “double challenge— how to reduce damaging carbon emissions while still meeting the energy demand that the world's poor need to escape poverty,” said World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz during a keynote talk.