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Obama urges climate change action

Source: Al Jazeera
Copenhagen : Denmark | 2 months ago  
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Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, on Tuesday opened a climate summit of about 100 leaders saying that failure to reach a new treaty this year on fighting global warming would be "morally inexcusable". Obama, in what was his first speech at the UN, said that the United States was "determined"...
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