A senior White House official outlined a new tactic to prove to a skeptical Europe that the Bush administration supported reaching a meaningful climate agreement, saying for the first time that the United States could enter into a binding pact that could be tailored to the capabilities of individual countries.

The pledge, made in an interview by telephone Tuesday with James Connaughton, chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, who is on a tour of three European capitals this week, represented a stepped-up effort by the Bush administration to burnish President George W. Bush's environmental credentials before he leaves office in early 2009.

Article in International Herald Tribune: http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/27/america/climate.php