United States of America
Under Secretary of State Paula Dobriansky
The United States of America became an Annex I party to the UNFCCC on March 21, 1994. It signed the Kyoto Protocol on November 12, 1998, but has not ratified it. Paula Dobriansky has served as Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs since July 29, 2005. Prior to that she was a senior vice president of the Council on Foreign Relations. The following is excerpted from Under Secretary Dobriansky’s address to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia, on December 12, 2007. As the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] report reminds us, we are…
