Obama, Chinese promise a climate deal
President Obama, with China’s leader at his side, lifted his sights Tuesday for a broad accord at next month’s climate conference that he said will lead to immediate action and “rally the world” toward a solution on global warming.
Obama and President Hu Jintao talked of a joint desire to tackle climate change, but failed to publicly address the root problems that could unravel a deal at the 192-nation conference in Copenhagen: how much each country can contribute to curb greenhouse gases and how the world will pay the billions of dollars needed to fight rising temperatures.
Hu said nations would do their part “consistent with our respective capabilities,” a reference to the now widely accepted view that developing nations — even energy guzzlers like China, India and Brazil — should be required only to set goals for reining in greenhouse-gas emissions, not accept absolute targets for reducing emissions like the industrialized countries.
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Obama, Chinese promise a climate deal
President Obama, with China’s leader at his side, lifted his sights Tuesday for a broad accord at next month’s climate conference that he said will lead to immediate action and “rally the world” toward a solution on global warming.
Obama and President Hu Jintao talked of a joint desire to tackle climate change, but failed to publicly address the root problems that could unravel a deal at the 192-nation conference in Copenhagen: how much each country can contribute to curb greenhouse gases and how the world will pay the billions of dollars needed to fight rising temperatures.
Hu said nations would do their part “consistent with our respective capabilities,” a reference to the now widely accepted view that developing nations — even energy guzzlers like China, India and Brazil — should be required only to set goals for reining in greenhouse-gas emissions, not accept absolute targets for reducing emissions like the industrialized countries.
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Related posts:
- PM warns of climate ‘catastrophe’ 50 days to save the world
- Royal Society warns climate engineering ‘could cause disaster’
- White House to fly Red Chinese flag
- Cass Sunstein Drafted ‘New Deal Fairness Doctrine’
- President Obama, time to make a decision
Tags: Brazil, China, emissions, global, greenhouse, India, obama, world