Next month U.S. President Barack Obama will attend a global climate summit in Copenhagen, Denmark. His objective is to spell out the U.S. goal for curbing greenhouse gas emissions.
The president says that he will take part in the conference on Dec. 9, before heading to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize.
Obama will lay out his ideas for reducing the United State’s carbon dioxide emissions; therein he pledges to cut heat-trapping pollution by about 17% from 2005 levels by 2020.
The European Union has urged the U.S. and China, to deliver greenhouse gas emission targets, saying their delays were hindering global efforts to curb climate change. Obama’s goals for slashing heat-trapping pollution, has already been presented to Capitol Hill in the form of a bill and is awaiting legislature.
The conference originally sought to produce a new global climate change treaty on limiting emissions of greenhouse gases that would replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
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