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On Sunday and Monday, foreign ministers and other international leaders met in Anchorage, Alaska to attend the Conference on Global Leadership in the Arctic. As a sign of the importance the United States placed on the Alaska forum, President Barack Obama attended. He used the conference as a platform for urging swifter action to combat climate change. After the conference, the representatives of the Arctic Council members signed a joint statement affirming "our commitment to take urgent action to slow the pace of warming in the Arctic." China said that it needed more time to review the document before signing. But RT had a different take, saying that China and India "opted not to sign the document" because "reducing emissions entails huge expenditure and loss of economic effectiveness." The failure to come to an agreement at the GLACIER conference sends a troubling signal for the Paris summit, and for U.S.-China cooperation in general. --Shannon Tiezzi, The Diplomat, 1 September 2015https://climatechangedispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/images_pics8_map-arctic-open.jpg