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Qualified Praise for Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan
World | Agence France-Presse | Updated: August 04, 2015 18:06 IST
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Qualified Praise for Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan
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PARIS: President Barack Obama's plan to slash electricity-generated CO2 emissions was welcomed today as a courageous step towards a lower-carbon future, but not yet enough to brake dangerous planet warming.
Politicians and analysts said Obama's Clean Power Plan, which faces fierce opposition in Republican quarters back home, should foster global goodwill and spur the international effort to pin down a climate rescue pact by year-end.
But much more was needed, from the US and other nations, to get the world on track to meet the UN goal of limiting average global warming to two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-Industrial Revolution levels, they warned.
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French President Francois Hollande said the first plan ever to limit US power plant emissions would be a "major contribution to the success" of the November 30-December 11 UN conference his country will host to ink a new global climate deal.
Hollande hailed Obama's "courage" in the face of Republican recriminations and the threat of legal action by the lobby group American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity.
Obama announced Monday that power plant owners must cut carbon dioxide emissions by 32 per cent from 2005 levels by 2030.
Power stations account for about 40 per cent of US emissions of CO2 -- the most abundant greenhouse gas and the main contributor to manmade global warming.
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