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Obama unveils USD 3 billion contribution to UN climate fund
2014-11-14 06:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Jagran Post: "It is in our national interest to helping vulnerable countries to build resilience to climate change," the administration official said as Obama headed to a G20 summit in Australia. Obama was en route to Brisbane after visiting Myanmar and China, where on Wednesday he and President Xi Jinping announced ambitious targets on greenhouse gas emissions as part of a pact designed to breathe new life into attempts to replace the international Kyoto treaty. Obama was expected to outline his pledge...
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Liberated from electoral cycle, Obama flexes policy muscles
2014-11-14 02:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: US President Obama emerged from last week's midterm election rejected by voters, hobbled politically and doomed to a final two years in office suffering from early lame-duck syndrome. That, at least, was the consensus in both parties. No one seems to have told Obama. In the 10 days since "we got beat," as he put it, by Republicans who captured the Senate and bolstered control over the House, Obama has flexed his muscles on immigration, climate change and the Internet, demonstrating that he still...
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Obama and Xi in emissions pledge
2014-11-12 09:12:15| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
China and the US unveil "historic" new pledges on greenhouse gas emissions, as the two leaders meet for talks in Beijing.
Obama steps into divisive debate on net neutrality
2014-11-11 19:28:48| Telecom - Topix.net
SAN FRANCISCO - Let's say President Barack Obama gets his way and high-speed Internet service providers are governed by the same U.S. regulations imposed on telephone companies 80 years ago. Depending on whom you listen to, the rules could unleash future innovation and create jobs - or stifle innovation and kill jobs.
Obama says internet providers must treat all customers equal
2014-11-11 13:04:20| IT Services - Topix.net
President Barack Obama called for the "strongest possible rules" to protect the open Internet, advocating stricter controls than a regulator he appointed and causing shares of Comcast Corp. and other broadband providers to drop. "I am asking for an explicit ban on paid prioritization," Obama said today in a statement, referring to so-called fast lanes for preferred Web traffic.
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