Obama says Copenhagen Accord breakthrough

Lalit K Jha
Washington, Dec 20 (PTI) Describing as a "breakthrough"
the agreement on climate change reached by him with leaders of
India and other emerging economies, US President Barack Obama
Sunday said it lays the foundation of international actions to
tackle global warming in the years to come.

For the first time in history all of the world's major
economies have come together to accept their responsibility to
take action to confront the threat of climate change, Obama
said.
"After extremely difficult and complex negotiations
this important breakthrough lays the foundation for
international action in the years to come," Obama said in his
first public statement on his return from Copenhagen.
This progress did not come easily and we know that
progress on this particular aspect of climate change
negotiations is not enough, he said referring to the
Copenhagen accord reached by the US and BASIC countries in the
final hour of the summit.
"Going forward we're going to have to build on the
momentum that we established in Copenhagen to ensure that
international action to significantly reduce emissions is
sustained and sufficient over time." PTI LKJ
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