Barack Obama: “We will reduce our carbon emissions in the range of 17 percent below…”

On the recordNovember 29, 2015

We will reduce our carbon emissions in the range of 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.

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Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks at the First Session of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Le Bourget

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Barack Obama: “We will reduce our carbon emissions in the range of 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.”