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Barack Obama readies climate change push at UN summit
2014-09-21 20:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: President Barack Obama will seek to galvanize international support in the fight against climate change on Tuesday when he addresses the United Nations, with time running out on his hopes of leaving a lasting environmental legacy. Obama has warned that failure to act on climate change would be a "betrayal" of future generations, but faced with a Congress reluctant to even limit greenhouse gas emissions -- let alone ratify an international agreement -- his options appear limited. Tuesday`s climate...
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Barack Obama seeks UN name & shame greenhouse gas reduction pact
2014-08-27 21:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: Its not what climate deniers want. Its not what poor countries want. Its not even what climate activists want. But in the absence of the slightest chance a gridlocked U.S. Congress is ready to take action on planet-warming carbon emissions, the Obama administration is moving to bypass its own lawmakers and instead strike a global agreement that would include naming and shaming countries that fail to meet greenhouse gas reduction targets. And that could be bad news for Canada, which is...
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Tony Abbott prepares for Barack Obama meeting saying climate change 'not most important issue'
2014-06-12 00:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: SARAH FERGUSON, PRESENTER: This time tomorrow, Tony Abbott will be preparing for his Oval Office meeting with President Obama and the gulf between the two leaders on climate change has never been wider. On his way to Washington, Tony Abbott announced an alliance with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to push back against using carbon trading schemes to tackle climate change, while President Obama at the same time was calling climate change perhaps the most significant long-term challenge facing...
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Climate change gulf looms between Barack Obama &Tony Abbott
2014-06-11 05:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate change may be the most significant long-term challenge facing the planet, Barack Obama has said in a newly aired TV interview, emphasising the growing differences with Tony Abbott who insists it is certainly not the most important issue facing the world. As Obama and Abbott prepare for their first formal meeting in Washington on Thursday, the differences between their positions on global warming are clearer than ever, and according to diplomatic sources the president will not seek to downplay...
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How Barack Obama and Tony Abbott differ on climate change
2014-06-11 05:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: On the importance of climate change as a global issue Barack Obama (interview with Thomas Friedman 2014, published in the New York Times): The science is compelling ... If you profess leadership in this country at this moment in our history then you have to recognise that this is going to be one of the most significant long-term challenges, if not the most significant long-term challenge, that this country faces and the planet faces. The good news is that the public may get out ahead of some...
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