Washington  (Platts)--7Sep2007

US President Bush will attend the UN meeting on energy and climate change
September 24 and will address the general assembly the following day, White
House officials said Friday.

     Bush received the invitation from UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon this
summer and will be hosting his own meeting on climate change meeting just days
later in Washington from September 27-28. "The president is committed to this
issue," said White House on Council on Environmental Quality spokeswoman
Kristine Hellmer.

     The Washington summit, which will be hosted by Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice, is being convened in the hopes of crafting an international
framework for reducing GHG emissions after the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.

     Representatives from more than a dozen major emitting countries,
including China and India, are expected to attend.

		--Alexander Duncan, alexander_duncan@platts.com