Obama makes climate change pledge
Updated on 18 November 2008
Calling climate change an urgent challenge, President-elect Barack Obama promised that Washington would take a leading role in combating it in the US and throughout the world.
"My presidency will mark a new chapter in America's leadership on climate change," he said in a video message to governors and others attending a Los Angeles summit on the issue.
In the four-minute message, Mr Obama reiterated his support for a cap-and-trade system approach to cutting green house gases. He would establish annual targets to reduce emissions to their 1990 levels by 2020 and reduce them another 80% by 2050. Mr Obama also promoted anew his proposal to invest 15 billion dollars each year to support private sector efforts toward clean energy.
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