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Clinton Proposed Annual World Summit on Energy and Climate. By Edward Luce, The Financial Times (UK), October 16, 2007. “Hillary Clinton on Monday said that as president of the U.S. she would set up an annual ‘E8? summit including India and China that would aim to tackle global warming and work towards energy security. The group, which would be modelled on the G8 summit of the world’s largest economies, would enable the U.S. to offer the global leadership on climate change that had been abdicated by the administration of George W. Bush, she said. She also pledged U.S. leadership to negotiate a successor treaty to the Kyoto protocol that would create binding carbon-emission reductions for the U.S. and the other participants… ‘As president I will make the fight against global warming a priority,’ she wrote in the forthcoming issue of the magazine Foreign Affairs, in an exposition of her foreign policy.” Security and Opportunity for the Twenty First Century. By Hillary Rodman Clinton, Foreign Affairs, November/December issue.