# Fred Krupp on NBC News: "Terrific" that Obama is Going to Copenhagen

*Published:* 2009-11-30
*Author:* Sharyn Stein

President Obama announced last Wednesday that he will attend the international climate talks in Copenhagen — and that in the context of an overall international agreement that includes commitments from China and other emerging economies, he is prepared to put on the table a U.S. emissions reduction target in the range of 17 percent below 2005 levels in 2020.

For those of you who were traveling, cooking, or turkey-shopping that night and missed the evening newscasts, here’s EDF’s president Fred Krupp[ talking about the announcement on NBC Nightly News](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/#34156585).