Obama and Hu pledge to tackle climate change, but remain vague on details

James S Murray
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Observers likely to be left cold, as addresses to UN fail to deliver detailed new proposals on how to break Copenhagen deadlock

Optimism that today's meeting of the UN could serve to reinvigorate the stalled Copenhagen negotiations appeared to be receding tonight, after US president Barack Obama and Chinese president Hu Jintao...

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