Obama Announces Non-Binding Climate Agreement In Copenhagen

Friday, December 18, 2009 at 5:48PM
Staff in Frontpage 2, 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.

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