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Readout from Obama’s Alaska Trip

Posted: September 3rd, 2015

President Barack Obama toured Alaska this week to bring more attention to the effects climate change has had on the Arctic region. President Obama, the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Arctic, addressed the U.S.’s role in climate change, saying “the United States recognizes our role in creating this problem, and we embrace our responsibility to help solve it.  And I believe we can solve it.”

On his three-day tour, the president visited the remote villages of Dillingham and Kotzebue to show the harm climate change is already having on U.S. soil.  Acknowledging the U.S. cannot solve the issues of climate change without international help, the president told the other nations attending the conference, “we are eager to work with your nations on the unique opportunities that the Arctic presents and the unique challenges that it faces.  We are not going to — any of us — be able to solve these challenges by ourselves.  We can only solve them together.”

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