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_Published 2015-11-30. President Obama says the U.S. is taking responsibility for the large role it has played in fueling climate change, but why is that important?_


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## Transcript

President Obama is copping to the US's role in creating climate change. The United States of America not only recognizes our role in creating this problem, we embrace our responsibility to do something about it. Given the fact that until recently, the US was the largest emitter of greenhouse gases, that seems obvious. But it's also important for the climate talks where the President made his comments. One of the main points of the conference is getting developed countries, which have already contributed a lot to the problem, to help developing countries, which are wary that cutting emissions will hurt their economic growth.

Resources will be there for countries willing to do their part to skip the dirty phase of development. And those resources could come in the form in billions of dollars the UN hopes developed countries will commit to its green climate fund which would funnel that money into developing countries

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