Obama will leave office on Jan. 20, 2017, never having signed or ratified the now-expired Kyoto accord, never having put a price on U.S. industrial carbon dioxide emissions, and with his major climate initiative -- tighter regulation of U.S. coal-fired electricity plants -- blocked by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Having spent years in opposition denouncing former prime minister Stephen Harper’s greenhouse gas emission targets as inadequate, Trudeau has now adopted them.
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