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The US presidential candidates have set out their climate change stalls as the race for the White House heats up.
Democrat nominee Barack Obama and Republican candidate John McCain pledged to improve the US record on the environment as they accepted their official nominations.
Accepting the Democratic nomination for president in front of thousands of supporters, Senator Obama said climate change was a threat of the 21st century, alongside terrorism and poverty.
His plans for the environment include creating 5m new green collar jobs, ensuring 25% of electricity comes from renewable sources by 2025, and putting a million plug-in hybrid cars on the road by 2015.
He also set out an ambitious goal to end the US' dependence on oil from the Middle East within ten years.
Senator Obama said: "Washington's been talking about our oil addiction for the last 30 years, and John McCain has been there for 26 of them.
"In that time, he's said no to higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars, no to investments in renewable energy, no to renewable fuels. And today, we import triple the amount of oil as the day that Senator McCain took office.
"Now is the time to end this addiction, and to understand that drilling is a stop-gap measure, not a long-term solution."
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