Obama and Ban Ki-moon didn't get the memo that climate is not on G20 agenda

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Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott may have thought he left global climate change off the agenda for the G20 summit in Brisbane, Australia, but U.S. President Obama and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon have put it squarely in the spotlight through a series of actions in the past few days.

Abbott, who has been skeptical about mainstream climate science findings and dismantled the industrialized world's first national carbon tax, had said he wanted the G20 meeting to focus on economic and security issues. Climate change has been a traditional agenda item for G20, G8 and G7 meetings in recent years, making its absence from the Brisbane gathering of world leaders noteworthy. Read more...

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