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Obama and Hu pledge to tackle climate change, but remain vague on details
Optimism that this week`s meeting of the UN could serve to reinvigorate the stalled Copenhagen negotiations appeared to be receding tonight, after US president Barack Obama and Chinese president Hu Jintao both delivered speeches that underscored the seriousness of the climate change threat but failed to deliver the detailed commitments many observers believe are necessary to break the deadlocked talks.
In his address to the UN General Assembly, Hu did announce new initiatives designed to help drive forward the Copenhagen negotiations to agree a successor to the Kyoto Treaty, including a pledge ... |
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Cutting emissions will increase global GDP, says Tony Blair
Far from proving a drain on the global economy, measures designed to cut carbon emissions could lead to increases in GDP and employment for all major economies, according to a major new report presented this week to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon by former British prime minister Tony Blair.
The report from international NGO the Climate Group reiterates the conclusion of the influential Stern Review that failing to address climate change would cost more than preventing it. But whereas the Stern Review predicted cutting global emissions would cost around one per cent of GDP - a figure Lord Stern ... |
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Commenting on this week`s vow by airlines to cut emissions, Friends of the Earth`s Executive Director Andy Atkins said: `The aviation industry rightly ...
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