grist: "The Council on Foreign Relations released a new report this week on how the United States should approach foreign policy as it relates to climate change. 'Confronting Climate Change: A Strategy for U.S. Foreign Policy,' as one might expect, indicates that the U.S. needs to come up with a mandatory emissions reduction plan if it wants China, India, and other rapidly developing countries to sign on to a new global pact. 'Visible U.S. leadership is essential to getting other nations, especially rapidly growing developing countries, to make significant efforts,' the authors argue in the report. The report indicates that the U.S. needs to adopt a cap-and-trade system aiming at reductions between 60 and 90 percent below 1990 levels by 2050, and that the federal government should increase funding for the development of new low-carbon technologies. They also argue that our electricity grid should be improved in order to support new energy sources. Making these improvements at home will put the United States a better position to negotiate for a world treaty, argues the CFR 'task force' that put together the report, chaired by former New York governor George Pataki and former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack."
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