Friday
Dec182009
Obama Announces Non-Binding Climate Agreement In Copenhagen
President Barack Obama announced a non-binding international agreement from the Copenhagen Climate Conference Friday that will ask individual countries to list their respective commitments against climate change in a transparent manner.
“For the first time in history, all major economies have come together to accept their responsibility to take action to confront the threat of climate change,” Obama said during a press conference.
The president acknowledged that ultimately landing on a binding agreement would be difficult, but seemed to play down such an agreement's importance.
“Kyoto was legally binding and everybody still fell short anyways,” the president joked.
“For the first time in history, all major economies have come together to accept their responsibility to take action to confront the threat of climate change,” Obama said during a press conference.
The president acknowledged that ultimately landing on a binding agreement would be difficult, but seemed to play down such an agreement's importance.
“Kyoto was legally binding and everybody still fell short anyways,” the president joked.
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Reader Comments (1)
We need a leadership, and policing on global issues. Such organisation cannot be done in a few days. However it van be done now that the is a majority in commitment for the first time.
Global problems like poverty, overfishing oceans, nuclear & insolvent bandid states can be dealt with in the same way. Now the majority of world leaders wants to take responsiblity and pay. This majoriry of leadership is new. After alle it would have been worthwile to act on bandid states some time ago. The differece of a little responsibility now and the cost in a few decades is huge.