Media Note
Office of the Spokesman
Washington, DC
United States Participation in Bali Climate Change Conference
The thirteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-13) will
take place December 3-14, 2007, in Bali, Indonesia.
In recognition of the importance the United States attaches to this conference, the White House is sending Chairman of
the White House Council on Environmental Quality James L. Connaughton to join in leading the Ministerial sessions
December 12-14. Chairman Connaughton is a senior advisor to President Bush, and his personal representative to the Major
Economies Process on Energy Security and Climate Change.
The White House is also sending U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Susan C. Schwab for a December 8-9 Trade Ministers
meeting and Under Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs David H. McCormick for a December 10-11 Finance
Ministers meeting.
Senior Climate Negotiator and Special Representative Dr. Harlan Watson will attend both weeks, and act as alternate to
Dr. Dobriansky. Other senior U.S. representatives attending the Bali conference include Assistant Secretary of State for
Oceans, Environment and Science Claudia A. McMurray, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy Andrew Karsner, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union C. Boyden Gray, and U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia Cameron R.
Hume.
Additional agencies to be represented include the Department of Agriculture; the U.S. Agency for International
Development; Environmental Protection Agency; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce; the National Security Council; the White House Council on Environmental Quality; the White House Office of
Science and Technology Policy; and members of Congress and congressional staff.
For further information about U.S. climate change policy, please see: www.state.gov/g/oes/climate.
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Released on November 26, 2007
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