We want the world's largest economies, including the United States, to be part of a global arrangement. An approach in which only some are committed to acting cannot be environmentally effective.

We don't want to be prejudging outcomes here," she said of US opposition to scientific guidelines for rich nations to cut emissions by 25-40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. "We dont want to be predetermining what will come out of this process.

Hopeful signs span the globe and there should be no doubt that the years ahead will be great ones for the cause of freedom,

In the coming weeks, we plan to hold a senior officials meeting of all partners in Washington to identify steps to achieve transparency, to improve donor coordination, to build capacity and develop containment strategies,

The Internet, especially, can be a liberating force. Topics once politically taboo can become freely discussed, and people can communicate anonymously. We must ensure it does not become a tool of repression.

No nation has made a greater contribution and a more concrete commitment to sustainable development.

This goal sets America on a path to slow the growth of greenhouse gas emissions and, as the science justifies, to stop and then reverse that growth,

We do not see this as a replacement, we see it as a complement to the Kyoto Protocol.

We also believe firmly that negotiations will not reap progress, as indicated, because there are differing perspectives.

We believe there are multiple paths to be pursued here,