Dirty Flying Eyelid: U.S. defends "enormous" climate efforts at U.N. talks

Friday, December 28, 2012

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U.S. defends "enormous" climate efforts at U.N. talks

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DOHA, Qatar The USA defended its track record on fighting climate change on Monday at U.N. talks, stating it's making "enormous" efforts to slow global warming and help the bad nations most influenced by it. Climate change: Fact or fiction? Other countries have actually implicated Washington of obstructing the environment talks ever since the Bush administration abandoned the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 treaty restricting emissions of heat-trapping gases by industrialized countries. As negotiators fulfilled for a two-week session in oil - and gas-rich Qatar, U.S. hand over Jonathan Pershing recommended America should have more credit. "Those who don't follow what the U.S. is doing may not be informed of the scale and extent of the effort, but it's enormous," Pershing stated.

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0.125783	"Those who don't follow what the U.S. is doing may not be informed of the scale and extent of the effort, but it's enormous," Pershing said. ...
0	"It doesn't mean enough is being done," Pershing said. ...
0.0249451	"It doesn't mean enough is being done," Pershing said. "It's clear the global community, and that includes us, has to do more if we are going to succeed at avoiding the damages projected in a warming world."
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Maite Nkoana-Mashabane

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0.15285	"We owe it to our people, the global citizenry. We owe it to our children to give them a safer future than what they are currently facing," said South African Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, ...
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