Barack Obama may delay signing up to Copenhagen climate change deal

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Senior figures warn that the president may need at least another six months to win domestic support for any proposal

Barack Obama may be forced to delay signing up to a new international agreement on climate change in Copenhagen at the end of the year because of the scale of opposition in the US Congress, it emerged...

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