In bonn, Germany, the climate negotiations are going to begin. There is lots of pressure on US to deliver deeper emissions cuts, which they have been resisting for a long time now. President Obama has left Congress to make the running, and the Waxman-Markey Bill is reportedly being watered down as it goes through early stages. It would deliver a cut of 4% on 1990 levels – the Kyoto Protocol benchmark, but it is only fraction of the 25-40% cut demanded of developed nations by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).