Africa: UN Climate Summit - Oxfam Reaction to President Obama's Climate Speech

press release

In response to the speech by President Obama at Ban Ki-moon's UN Climate Summit, Raymond C. Offenheiser, President of Oxfam America said,

"President Obama's speech today was encouraging and the Administration's recent actions to curb emissions demonstrate leadership, but US policy on the whole does not reflect the urgency of the President's rhetoric. The President reemphasized the Administration's ongoing promise to meet its existing emissions targets and set new ones. However, it will be impossible to fulfill the agreements made in the Copenhagen Accord to keep global emissions in line with a 2 degree Celsius target without more substantial action by Congress and the President. New efforts must deliver much needed climate finance for poor countries and take further measures to reduce emissions in the US.

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