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At U.N., Obama Focuses on Corruption, Inequality and Other Roadblocks to Sustainable Development
2015-09-28 02:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: President Obama today joined the parade of leaders addressing a United Nations session hailing the adoption of 17 Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, which range from extremely lofty (end poverty in all its forms everywhere) to doable but difficult (sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss). Explore all of the goals here. Heres The Timess news story on the speech and the White House backgrounder on the administrations...
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Obama calls for 'strong' climate deal in Paris
2015-09-27 22:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: US President Barack Obama on Sunday urged world leaders to step up efforts for a "strong" climate agreement at year-end talks in Paris. "In just two months, the world must unite around a strong global agreement," Obama said in an address to a United Nations development summit. "All our countries will be affected by a changing climate, but the world's poorest people will bear the heaviest burden -- rising seas, more intense droughts," Obama said. "We'll be seeing climate change refugees,"...
Obama Says Paris Climate Talks Bound to Fall Short
2015-09-27 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: President Barack Obama said he hopes major countries agree to "aggressive enough targets" to cut carbon emissions at climate talks in Paris later this year, but he said any deal will fall short of what is needed to slow global warming. "I'm less concerned about the precise number, because let's stipulate right now, whatever various country targets are, it's still going to fall short of what the science requires," Obama said in an interview published in Rolling Stone magazine. In an interview...
Obama, Xi make climate vow but clash on rights, islands
2015-09-26 21:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: U.S. President Barack Obama and mainland China leader Xi Jinping vowed to fight global warming and halt commercial cybertheft on Friday, but exchanged sharp words on human rights and territorial disputes. At an extraordinary joint news conference, Obama chided the mainland on its treatment of dissidents and insisted hacking attacks on U.S. firms must stop, even as he thanked Xi for his commitment on climate change. The world's top two economic powers are also its biggest polluters, and campaigners...
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Obama and Xi unveil shiny new U.S.-China climate deal
2015-09-25 23:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The U.S. and China are in friction over plenty of topics cyber attacks, military jostling in the South China Sea, a recent currency devaluation but theyve found significant common ground on at least one issue. Chinese President Xi Jinpings first state visit to the U.S. resulted on Friday in a new joint presidential statement on climate change. It outlines Chinas plans for a nationwide cap-and-trade scheme for 2017, a new $3.1 billion commitment from China to climate finance for poorer nations,...
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