Posted on 12/04/2009 3:15:04 PM PST by NormsRevenge
US President Barack Obama has changed his plans to attend the UN summit on climate change in Copenhagen next week, the White House has announced.
He will arrive later than initially planned, moving his appearance from 9 December to 18 December.
The White House said he believed "that continued US leadership can be most productive through his participation at the end of the Copenhagen conference".
The summit aims to draw up a treaty to succeed the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
The president had changed his plans after talks with other leaders and after seeing "the progress that has already been made to give momentum to negotiations".
Climate fund support
US representatives will attend the Copenhagen summit throughout negotiations, the White House added.
It said the president believed recent progress included the emissions reduction target announced by the US; China and India setting targets for the first time to reduce their carbon intensity and moves by members of the Commonwealth.
The White House said the president had discussed the state of the negotiations with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
He concluded there appeared to be growing support for the suggested $10bn annual fund to help developing countries deal with climate change.
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If the voting is done like it was on the video I saw, if you aren't there, or are asleep(yes,on the job asleep), then someone else can (and often there is a race amongst the biggest offenders) and will 'vote' for you.
Count on it!
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