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Grading Obama’s Address to UN on Energy and Climate

2 by David Wescott on September 22, 2009

President Obama addresses UN Climate Change Summit. UN Photo/Marco Castro

Tim Hurst, Maria Surma Manka, Jeff McIntire-Strasburg and I - we've taken to calling ourselves the "Gang of Four" - checked out President Obama's speech to the United Nations Climate Change Summit and gave our immediate reactions in another podcast. We talked about the noteworthy items in the speech, as well as some of the things we noticed were not in the speech. Since Jeff is a college professor, we thought it would be fun to give the President a grade on the speech. We're planning to compare this speech with the results of the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh later this week.

Here is the full text of President Obama's speech to the UN on climate and the video of the address is below.

This podcast is 14:11 and Tim's audio quality is a little better this time.

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Category: Climate Change, Energy, Policy & Economy, Radio | Tags: barack obama, Climate Change, global warming, podcast, united nations

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David Wescott directs the social media team for APCO Worldwide, a global public affairs firm. He served as a legislative aide to U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) and worked on energy and economic issues. He also managed a pediatrics department in a public hospital in the mid-nineties. David writes a personal blog called It’s Not a Lecture and a column called “Living Locally, Working Globally” for Business Lexington. He lives in Durham, North Carolina, with his wife, his son, and his chocolate Labrador retriever.

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http://www.uspresidentblog.com Marc Bechard

In his address to the UN summit on climate change, President Obama needed to deliver the message that his country is making a clear commitment to the cause. He cited initiatives within his country while leaving the door open for other world powers to contribute efforts in line with their economic development.

Climate change requires a contribution by all nations otherwise the changes don’t work. The address from President Obama needed to indicate a clear commitment from a world power and in my estimation, it accomplished that.