Poverty eradication and climate change abatement are complementary

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any see climate change abatement and the eradication of poverty as complementary.

One without the other is not, it is argued, in the world community’s best interests.

The world’s nations are presently in New York negotiating sustainable development goals and the U.S., President, Barack Obama, has thrown his weight behind the ambitious idea.

Read the Melbourne Age story - “Barack Obama backs United Nations development goals”.