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Paris climate change agreement faces hurdles in the USA

Susan Jaffe | Washington Correspondent for The Lancet | 31st December 2015
Only a few hours after thousands of representatives from 195 countries approved the landmark Paris cliThe Lancet USA blog logomate change agreement, President Barack Obama stepped before the TV cameras at the White House to congratulate them. It Paris 2offers the best chance we have to save the one planet we have,” Obama said. “We’ve shown that the world has both the will and the ability to take on this challenge.”
But the international consensus to reduce global warming failed to move the Republican candidates competing for Obama’s job.  {Continued here.]