Page 11 - Climate Change Talks
Climate change is a global challenge, must act with urgency: PM
Asks developed countries to make adjustments to sharply reduce their carbon emissions
 "Climate change is a global challenge, must act with urgency: PM")
Modi adds soft touch to hard talk at Paris climate meet
Demands that the rich world vacate the carbon space for developing countries to grow in future
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Paris climate talks a test of global resolve: Obama
President Barack Obama told world leaders that the climate talks that opened Monday in Paris mark a turning point for collective action on global warming and stand as a rejection of the terrorists who struck the French capital a little more than two weeks ago. The threat posed by climate change is the defining challenge of the century, Obama told the United Nations-sponsored summit organised to reach the first truly global agreement to curb greenhouse gases. Linking the meeting to the battle against extremism, Obama said that bringing world leaders to Paris for the conference "is an act of defiance that proves nothing will deter us from building the future we want for our children.""Here in Paris we can show the world what is possible when we come together, united by a common effort and a common purpose," Obama said.The president told the assembled dignitaries that no nation was immune from the effects of climate change. He said the U.S., the world's biggest economy and its second bigg
Montek Singh Ahluwalia: Towards a strategy for climate change talks
As a growing economic power, but lagging behind China does not mean India should not set targets for carbon emissions: only that our targets must reflect the difference in our situations
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