Obama flexes green fingers
Updated on 21 December 2008
Barack Obama plans to make global warming a key priority when he's sworn in as president next month.
Barack Obama is preparing a dramatic break with the Bush years. He's appointed some of the world's top climate change experts as advisers - putting science, which he described as "the key to our survival as a planet and our security and prosperity as a nation", at the top of America's agenda.
Samira Ahmed is joined in the studio by Professor Robert Watson, the former chairman of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change and currently chief scientific adviser to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
