The EPA says that while it has has taken important steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at home, but the global challenge of climate change requires a global solution. "To make significant progress in reducing the effects of climate change, pollution must be cut throughout the world. EPA will promote global strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants such as methane from landfills and black carbon from cookstoves. These pollutants are damaging especially vulnerable regions such as the Himalayan glaciers and the Arctic."
The announcement was made at a meeting of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation in Guanajuato, Mexico.
“Pollution doesn’t stop at international borders, and neither can our environmental and health protections. The local and national environmental issues of the past are now global challenges,” said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson.
Read the full Press Release "Administrator Jackson Announces EPA’s International Priorities / Agency to work with other countries to curb pollution at home and abroad"
Image Description: Black Carbon and Sulfate Aerosol Optical Thickness. Image created by Science on a Sphere, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA. Image Location: NOAA http://sos.noaa.gov/images/atmosphere/black_and_sulfate.jpg .
