Obama Announces Non-Binding Climate Agreement
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The U.S. has reached a "meaningful and unprecedented breakthrough" with China and three other countries on a global warming deal, President Obama said Friday.
But Obama, who put his prestige on the line by traveling to Denmark for the final day of the two-week summit, added, "It is going to be very hard, and it's going to take some time" to get to a legally binding treaty. "We have come a long way, but we have much further to go," he said near the conclusion of a 193-nation global warming summit.
The president said there was a "fundamental deadlock in perspectives" between big, industrially developed countries like the United States and poorer, though sometimes large, developing nations.
Still he said this week's efforts "will help us begin to meet our responsibilities to leave our children and grandchildren a cleaner planet."
The deal as described by Obama reflects some progress helping poor nations cope with climate change and getting China to disclose its actions to address the warming problem.
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