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Obama rules out Copenhagen treaty

By Edward Luce and Kevin Brown in Singapore and Fiona Harvey in London

Published: November 15 2009 07:45 | Last updated: November 15 2009 18:43

Barack Obama, US president, leaves Air Force One on his arrival in ShanghaiAgence,France-Presse
Step by step: Barack Obama, US president, leaves Air Force One on his arrival on Sunday in Shanghai for a three-day visit to China

Barack Obama conceded on Sunday that next month’s Copenhagen summit would not produce a legally binding agreement to tackle global warming, but left the door open to a substantive deal at the climate change conference.

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