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Obama: Action on climate change ‘an economic and a security imperative’
President Barack Obama says climate change is “an economic and a security imperative that we have to tackle now.”
Obama spoke to reporters on the sidelines of the U.N. Climate Summit outside Paris, where leaders are working to agree on binding measures to keep global temperatures from rising more than two degrees C. above pre-Industrial Revolution levels.
The U.N. weather agency says the average global temperature will have risen by one degree by the end of 2015, halfway to the limit the U.N. is seeking to impose in order to prevent potentially catastrophic global effects.
Earlier Tuesday, the White House announced that 73 U.S. companies are pledging support for action on climate change. The goals call for the corporations to reduce emissions by as much as 50 percent, cut their water usage by 80 percent, and buy 100 percent renewable energy.
MORE HERE: http://yonside.com/obama-action-on-climate-change-economic-and-a-security/
Obama spoke to reporters on the sidelines of the U.N. Climate Summit outside Paris, where leaders are working to agree on binding measures to keep global temperatures from rising more than two degrees C. above pre-Industrial Revolution levels.
The U.N. weather agency says the average global temperature will have risen by one degree by the end of 2015, halfway to the limit the U.N. is seeking to impose in order to prevent potentially catastrophic global effects.
Earlier Tuesday, the White House announced that 73 U.S. companies are pledging support for action on climate change. The goals call for the corporations to reduce emissions by as much as 50 percent, cut their water usage by 80 percent, and buy 100 percent renewable energy.
MORE HERE: http://yonside.com/obama-action-on-climate-change-economic-and-a-security/
