
In an impassioned speech, former US President Bill Clinton told the climate talks here on Friday that the Bush administration was 8220;flat wrong8221; to reject the Kyoto accord and said cutting greenhouse gases was good for business and the planet.
8220;We know from every passing year 8230;that if we had a serious, disciplined effort to apply on a large scale existing clean energy and energy conservation technologies that we could meet and surpass the Kyoto targets easily in a way that would strengthen, not weaken, our economies,8221; he said. REUTERS