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Text of Obama's Speech at UN Climate Conference

2 hours ago ago from CleanBeta

President Barack Obama 's remarks Friday at the U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen: Good morning. It is an honor for me to join this distinguished group of leaders from nations around the world. We come here in Copenhagen because climate change poses a grave and growing danger to our people. All of you would not be here unless you — like me — were convinced that this danger is real. This is not fiction, it is science. Unchecked, climate ...

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LET THERE BE PEACE ON EARTH

7 hours ago ago from DAUGHTERS OF LIGHT

LET THERE BE PEACE ON EARTH by Nastya Andreyovna FOR YEARS, OUR FAMILIES have had a tradition of caroling to the elderly in convalescent homes. Every Christmas, the moms make a trip to the grocery store to buy candy canes in mass amounts, we children gather together and sing through all the beautiful carols we know, and [...]

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THEY CAN ALWAYS TRY AGAIN IN 17 YEARS...:

15 hours ago ago from BrothersJudd Blog

Talk About a Climate Catastrophe : The deal Obama brought home from Copenhagen wasn't just weak—it wasn't even really a deal. David Roberts on what went wrong—and what Obama has to do next. (David Roberts, 12/19/09, Daily Beast) Saturday morning witnessed one of the most extraordinary and dramatic debates in the 17-year history of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Copenhagen climate talks (Conference of the Parties 15, or ...

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So what is the deal on climate change? – results of COP15

15 hours ago ago from Capacity Building for Sustainable Development

BBC news provided the key points of the less than unanimous deal Copenhagen deal: Key points A US-led initiative called the Copenhagen Accord has formed the centre-piece of a deal at UN climate talks in Copenhagen, despite some countries' opposition. Below is an explanation of the main points in the agreement. LEGAL STATUS The Accord, reached between the US, China, India, Brazil and South Africa, contains no reference to ...

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Climate and Copenhagen: success or failure The Economic Voice

20 hours ago ago from The Economic Voice

After years of planning and two weeks of intensive debate and wrangling whether these talks have achieved any success or not depends on which newspaper you read or which politician you listen to. During the years of preparation the aim seemed to be that we would walk away from Copenhagen with a clearly defined plan to combat climate change. Every country would contribute in some way, the richest paying the most and it would all be ...

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Delegates 'take note' of brokered agreement

18 hours ago ago from Washington Post - Health

COPENHAGEN -- Negotiators here chose to take note of a U.S.-brokered agreement on climate change Saturday morning, after being unable to get a consensus on formally adopting the accord as an official decision of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. The move came after final language that would have paid developing countries to preserve their tropical forests in order to avert the release of greenhouse gases was shelved, along ...

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Climate Reality: Voluntary Efforts Not Enough : NPR

7 hours ago ago from NPR

Search hear continuous streams 24-Hour Program Stream NPR News and Shows hear the latest news [4 min 45 sec] Latest NPR Newscast Climate Reality: Voluntary Efforts Not Enough by The Associated Press Associated Press UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon reacts during a press conference in ...

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