Obama announces global forum on climate change
Barrack Obama has started to deliver on some of his pre-election promises regarding the United States response on climate change. In an announcement planned to coincide with Earth Hour, Obama has invited figures from the world’s largest 16 economies to Washington in April.
The primary purpose of the forum is to “help generate the political leadership necessary to achieve a successful outcome at the UN climate change negotiations that will convene this December in Copenhagen”, according to the White House statement.
Given the increasingly dire climate change news coming from the world’s scientific community, together with a good deal of pessimism about the likelihood of reaching any king of global accord at Copenhagen, the timing could not be better for Obama to throw his hat into the ring.
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