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After Copenhagen: What's Next for Climate Change?
After some tough talk from President Obama, frenzied negotiations are under way to save the climate change talks from total failure. We get a progress report from Copenhagen and hear what might happen next. Also, climate change and the prospect of mass migration.
By Warren Olney • • 50m ListenAfter some tough talk from President Obama, frenzied negotiations are under way to save the climate change talks from total failure. We get a progress report from Copenhagen and hear what might happen next. Also, what climate change already means for millions of people.
Banner image: US President Barack Obama speaks during a plenary session today at the Bella Center in Copenhagen on the 12th day of the COP15 UN Climate Change Conference. Photo: Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images
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2 storiesAfter Copenhagen: What's Next for Climate Change?
In Copenhagen today, President Obama met with other national leaders, then scolded convention delegates for their apparent failure to reach agreement on climate change.
Read the story43 minClimate Change and the Prospect for Mass Migration
Climate change is not just a possibility, it's happening now with potentially catastrophic consequences for millions of people. In the coastal village of Moura in Bangladesh, 30 families agreed at an impromptu meeting that their only hope of survival was to become climate refugees.
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