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China's pledge on greenhouse gases means it would shoulder more than a quarter of the CO2 emissions cuts needed to avoid dangerous global warming, a top economist said Thursday.
WASHINGTON -- Putting his prestige on the line, President Barack Obama will personally commit the U.S.
Obama will commit to US greenhouse emission cuts, personally making US case in Copenhagen
President Obama will commit the U.S. to a goal of cuts in greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade at a climate conference in Copenhagen next month. His goal is to cut carbon dioxide emissions by about 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020.
China vows to dramatically slow emissions growth by 2020, building momentum for Copenhagen
Putting his prestige on the line, President Barack Obama will personally, at next month's Copenhagen climate summit, commit the U.S. to a goal of substantially cutting greenhouse gases. He will insist that America is ready to tackle global warming despite resistance in Congress over higher costs for businesses and homeowners.
The Obama administration announced Wednesday that the president will attend, briefly, global climate talks set for next month in Copenhagen. The White House also unveiled the greenhouse-gas targets it will present, on the condition that what the US can ultimately offer hinges on the outcome of energy and climate legislation currently before Congress.
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Police broke up a protest by the environmental group Greenpeace against deforestation on the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Thursday, arresting 12 foreign and six Indonesian demonstrators, an activist said.
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- China, the biggest producer of greenhouse gases, set its first numerical target to slow their growth a day after the U.S. offered its own goal, giving impetus to next month’s global climate-protection talks.
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Australian leader Kevin Rudd is struggling to force through legislation aimed at reducing carbon emissions, as he flies to Washington for talks with President Barack Obama on global warming.
President Obama and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao will attend the Copenhagen climate talks next month and have pledged new targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Canada's prime minister is reversing his position and will attend a United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen next month, Stephen Harper's spokesman said Thursday.
The commitment from the world's largest polluter builds momentum ahead of a widely anticipated climate conference in Copenhagen next month. China pledges to reduce emissions by up to 45 percent as measured against its economic output.
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Australian leader Kevin Rudd will today try to force through legislation aimed at reducing carbon emissions, days before he flies to Washington for talks with President Barack Obama on global warming.
TORONTO - Canada's prime minister is reversing his position and will attend a United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen next month, Stephen Harper's spokesman said Thursday.
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Australian leader Kevin Rudd will today try to force through legislation aimed at reducing carbon emissions, days before he flies to Washington for talks with President Barack Obama on global warming.
Hackers stole about a decade's worth of data from a computer server at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit. About 1,000 e-mails and 3,000 documents have been posted on web sites and seized on by climate change skeptics, who say correspondence shows collusion between scientists to overstate the case for global warming.
Much of corporate America has already been thinking about how to comply with sharp cuts when they came, and that day seems to have moved closer.
Canada's prime minister is reversing his position and will attend a United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen next month, Stephen Harper's spokesman said Thursday.
TORONTO (AP) - Canada's prime minister is reversing his position and will attend a United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen next month, Stephen Harper's spokesman said Thursday.
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