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Obama meets with China president as climate summit begins
2015-11-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: President Obama kicked off his day at the Paris climate summit with a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, hailing the two nations for their work on climate change but urging greater Chinese cooperation on cyber-crime and maritime issues that include Chinas military construction on disputed reefs in the South China Sea. In remarks before the session, Obama stressed the importance of cooperation between the worlds two largest economies and greenhouse gas emitters, saying that nowhere...
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COP21: Paris conference could be climate turning point, says Obama
2015-11-30 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: US President Barack Obama has said the UN climate conference in Paris could be a "turning point" in global efforts to limit future temperature rises. Negotiators from 195 countries will try to reach a deal within two weeks aimed at reducing global carbon emissions and limiting global warming to 2C (3.6F). Leaders from 147 nations have been addressing the meeting, known as COP21. President Obama urged negotiators to deliver a meaningful deal, because the "next generation is watching". He...
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Obama: Climate summit a 'rejection' of terror
2015-11-30 13:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: Combating climate change will prove to be a rebuttal of terrorist efforts, President Barack Obama declared at the opening of a major climate summit in Paris. "What greater rejection of those who would tear down our world than marshaling our best efforts to save it," Obama said Monday at the COP21 conference, being held at a highly secured site outside the French capital two weeks after ISIS terrorists carried out a bloody rampage. "We have come to Paris to show our resolve," Obama said, saying...
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US is partly to blame for climate change: Obama
2015-11-30 11:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveMint: President Barack Obama told world leaders who gathered northeast of Paris on Monday for a climate conference that the United States is at least partly to blame for the life-threatening damage that environmental change has wrought, and he urged world leaders to join him in fixing the problem. "I've come here personally, as the leader of the world's largest economy and the second-largest emitter,' Obama said, "to say that the United States of America not only recognizes our role in creating this...
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Barack Obama arrives in Paris UN climate change summit
2015-11-30 03:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: US President Barack Obama touches down at Orly airport outside Paris on Sunday night, ahead of the COP21 climate summit which is taking place in the French capital this week. The summit, due to start on Monday and continue for two weeks, aims to agree on a common global approach to tackling climate change
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