Poll:
Action on climate will boost US economy
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Americans believe steps taken to reduce global warming pollution
will help the US economy than say such measures will hurt
it. 15/12/2009 - In an Associated Press-Stanford University
poll, 40 percent said US action to slow global warming in
the future would create jobs. Slightly more, 46 percent,
said it would boost the economy.
By
contrast, less than a third said curbing climate change
would hurt the economy and result in fewer jobs, a message
Republican members of Congress plan to take to an international
global warming conference in Copenhagen this week.
"They're
wrong," Ron Classen, who participated in the poll,
said of the Republican stance. "People are going to
be shifted from one job to another," said Classen,
a self-described fan of environmentalist and former Vice
President Al Gore.
The
survey's results seem to boost Democratic efforts to curb
global warming pollution and sign on to an international
agreement to reduce heat-trapping gases, despite the concerns
many Americans have about the recession and the high unemployment
rate.
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Four
world leaders discuss climate negotiations
The leaders of France, Britain, Germany and the United States
"coordinated their positions" on Tuesday ahead
of this week's climate summit in Copenhagen.
15/12/2009 - French President Nicolas Sarkozy's office says
he's held a video conference on the climate talks with US
President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel
and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
Sarkozy's
office says the 50-minute discussion touched on "essential
points under negotiation" at the climate talks in Copenhagen.
Merkel
spokesman Ulrich Wilhelm says the leaders "coordinated
their positions and tasked their staff with working closely
together during the further preparations" for the summit
in the Danish capital. The leaders spoke Tuesday.
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