{"id":108120,"date":"2009-12-28T11:44:56","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T16:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earth2tech.com\/?p=48352"},"modified":"2009-12-28T11:44:56","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T16:44:56","slug":"obama-on-copenhagen-disappointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/108120","title":{"rendered":"Obama on Copenhagen: Disappointed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"Clearly the accord that emerged<\/a> from the Copenhagen climate negotiations was a disappointment for most<\/a> everyone involved. And President Obama acknowledged that over the holidays, telling PBS’s Jim Lehrer that<\/a> “people are justified in being disappointed about the outcome in Copenhagen.”<\/p>\n

It didn’t move us the way we need to. The science says that we’ve got to significantly reduce emissions over the next — over the next 40 years. There’s nothing in the Copenhagen agreement that ensures that that happens.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Many were angry with Obama<\/a> himself for failing to produce an 11th hour deal. Bill McKibben went as far<\/a> as accusing him of metaphorically blowing up the U.N. and creating a league of super polluters. Others blamed China for the failure<\/a> to produce a substantial agreement.<\/p>\n

It made so few people happy, we included the deal in our list of\u00a0green winners and losers of 2009<\/a> (GigaOM Pro subscription required). But as Obama says in his PBS interview, it’s his job to sell the benefits of a green economy to the American people now that the deal fell through on the world stage.<\/p>\n

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