Canada's Environment Minister Peter Kent speaks at an event to launch "The Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants" initiative February 16, 2012 in the Benjamin Franklin Room of the State Department in Washington, DC. AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images) Can be used with Sheldon Alberts (Postmedia News). ENVIRONMENT-POLLUTANTS