On Monday, December 3rd, the world is focusing its attention on the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali. An international agreement needs to be found to follow the Kyoto Protocol which expires in 2012. And the support of the United States, one of the largest emitters of carbon, is absolutely necessary. Last October, at the National Party congress of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) in Hamburg, we collected opinions about the responsibility of the United States to combat climate change.