Barack Obama and Climate Change | 26th Feb 2009

The new US President, Barack Obama, has made some bold statements around positioning the US as a leader in climate change and how he will achieve this.

But what is the reality of such statements, especially when facing a US recession? Will we see commitments being pushed back? And how will this impact Europe? If Obama delivers on his commitments we could see the US leapfrog European commitments.

Here we look at his policies in more detail, the likelihood of their implementation where we give them a success rating, and their impact on Europe.

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