Climate change

Recovering from one of the strongest storms ever recorded will take years.

We're expanding cooperation to create clean energy jobs and combat climate change.

We can't just rely on fossil fuels from the last century.

The importance of combating global climate change is essential to our energy security.

Without urgent global action, climate change could reverse our hard-won gains.

We are strong partners in trade and investment as well as energy, climate change, and environmental cooperation.

Together, we can also promote energy security and protect our beautiful planet.

Americans know what's at stake by continuing our dependence on fossil fuels.

I want us to be first in wind power, first in solar power.

To meet our growing energy needs and prevent the worst consequences of climate change, we'll need to increase our supply of nuclear power.

This one plant, for example, will cut carbon pollution by 16 million tons each year when compared to a similar coal plant.

To meet our growing energy needs and prevent the worst consequences of climate change, we need to increase our supply of nuclear power and today’s announcement helps to move us down that path.

I am convinced that America can win the race to build a clean energy economy, but we're going to have to overcome the weight of our own politics.

Our main concern in coming to Copenhagen was to try to move forward with an accord on the issue of climate change.

The importance of creating a successful framework for emissions reductions

He goes with a serious climate protection proposal from the United States that shows we mean business.

We can partner to meet other transnational challenges: developing clean energy partnerships, confronting climate change, stopping infectious disease, reducing hunger, and working to end extreme poverty in our time.

The United States and China can work on a whole range of global issues, including climate change, making sure that we have economic growth and prosperity, and ensuring that together we are bringing about a more peaceful world.