Obama muscles his way into Gang of Five to hammer out environmental framework

President Obama in Copenhagen

President Obama announced a framework deal for climate change with four other nations.

China, India, Brazil and South Africa were holding all the cards on a agreement and Obama used his persuasion to close the deal.

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The four major developing countries – China, India, Brazil and South Africa – agreed with the United States to sign a framework agreement.

They were actually meeting in secret without the US. Obama made his way to their meeting room and after secret negotiations a deal was struck.

The target is to keep climate warming to 2 C.

“We’ve come a long way but we have much further to go”, President Obama

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