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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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Stephen Harper & Tony Abbott won't let climate policies kill jobs
2014-06-09 23:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ottawa Citizen: The political leaders of Canada and Australia declared on Monday they wont take any action to battle climate change that harms their national economies and threatens jobs. Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Australian counterpart, Tony Abbott, made the statements following a meeting on Parliament Hill. Abbott, whose Liberal party came to power last fall on a conservative platform, publicly praised Harper for being an exemplar of centre-right leadership in the world. Abbotts government...
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Australia: PM Abbott heads to Canada
2014-06-07 18:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: Trade and investment will be on the agenda when Prime Minister Tony Abbott meets his Canadian counterpart Stephen Harper in Ottawa. Mr Abbott will wrap up his visit to France with Sunday Mass at Notre Dame cathedral before heading to Canada. He will be the first Australian leader to visit Ottawa since 2006. The Abbott and Harper governments have much in common, treading cautiously on climate policy and having economies heavily reliant on the resources industry. Climate protesters who...
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