Obama and Hu aim to agree greenhouse gas targets

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Source: The Guardian

Statement by leaders of world's two biggest polluters could breathe new life into Copenhagen climate change talks
Jonathan Watts and Tania Branigan in Beijing guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 17 November 2009 09.14 GMT

The US and China, the world's two biggest polluters, today said they aimed to set targets for easing greenhouse gas emissions next month, potentially breathing new life into the flagging Copenhagen climate negotiations.

Days after the US president, Barack Obama, said time to secure a legally binding agreement had run out, he and the Chinese president, Hu Jintao, agreed at a summit that they would continue to press for a comprehensive deal at Copenhagen that would "rally the world".

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In a joint communique, the leaders said an accord in Denmark should include emission reduction targets for rich nations and a declaration of action plans to ease greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries.

Countering concerns that a non-legal deal could evade many key issues, the communique said the climate talks should also increase financial assistance to developing countries, promote technology development, help poor communities to adapt and enhance forest protection.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/17/barack-obama-hu-jintao-climate

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1. Great! They're fixin' to set them somma them there GHG targets!!!

Super!!

[Cha]

2. Wonderful..this would not be happening if old

mcpalin had oozed in.

[AtheistCrusader]

3. Well shit.

I may begin to believe he CAN do anything. That's amazing.

Imagine, working WITH Russia and China. The foreign relations changes in the last week have been astounding. All it took was for Bush and his gaggle of bitter cold war chickenhawks to go away. So many roadblocks, just gone. Vanished away like a bad dream.

[Diane R]

4. This is for those who say Obama isn't changing the world fast enough. Change I believe in.