“I will be joining President Hollande and world leaders in Paris for the global climate conference”, Obama said Tuesday during a joint news conference with French President Francois Hollande.
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Both emissions reductions and adaptation would be essential to manage and reduce the risk of adverse impacts of climate change, including addressing the risk of loss and damage associated with the impacts of climate change, added the press release.
The ACP said that climate finance is particularly important for the grouping “given the significant amount of financial, technical, technological and capacity-building support that is needed to enable all ACP countries…to adapt to the adverse effects of climate change”.
“Science is telling us that we need to act quickly on climate change and Paris is our moment”.
The White House says President Barack Obama is hoping to give a boost to the worldwide COP21 climate talks in Paris next week by holding early one-on-one meetings with the leaders of China and India.
The scheduling appears to be a deliberate attempt to avoid an embarrassing climate summit mishap like the one in Copenhagen in 2009, when Mr. Obama, despite his in-person appeals, was unable to secure a meaningful worldwide agreement to fight global warming.
Disputes over responsibility and costs made it hard for the world’s developed and developing countries to cooperate at previous climate conferences, and Paris will be no different.
According to United States Secretary of State John Kerry, achieving a consensus with New Delhi on major points of the new climate agenda would be a “challenge”.
The Environment Ministry official also maintained that India is well below its fair share of emissions.
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“The goal of these meetings is to make sure that leaders are on the same page about our objectives and strategy going into these final two weeks of negotiation, not to make announcements, per se”. Fortunately, all of the participants recently created a Green Climate Fund that will collect contributions from developed countries for developing countries to use to adapt to a warmer planet. This viral from Unilever, in collaboration with Upworthy, helped to highlight global warming with a smart marketing stunt that got people sharing on Facebook in droves. In response to the UN’s call, more than 166 countries, which collectively account for more than 90 per cent of emissions, have now submitted national climate plans with targets.
