Obama’s Paris remarks show that day is getting closer. Obama said the American people should continue with their Thanksgiving holiday plans and “We are taking every possible step to keep our homeland safe”.
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“Ten, 12”, Giuliani said.
“I think one of the dumbest statements I’ve ever heard in politics – in the history of politics as I know it, which is pretty good, was Obama’s statement that our No. 1 problem is global warming”, GOP frontrunner Donald Trump said Monday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”. “And we have to deal with both of them”, said Deputy National Security Advisor, Ben Rhodes.
President Barack Obama asked fellow world leaders to leave a legally-binding legacy.
“Great nations can handle a lot at once”, Obama said.
The encounters highlighted one of the biggest debates in the effort to reach an worldwide accord to fight global warming: how much aid rich countries should give poor ones to help them adapt to climate change and reduce their emissions.
What’s ironic, though, is that in his home country, the United States, anything legally binding coming out of Paris will never pass a Republican-majority Congress. Previously, secretary of state John Kerry said it would “definitively” not be a treaty.
The U.S. president had already left Paris, France for Washington, but only after reminding everyone at the press conference that a treaty should include a significant carbon reduction commitment and several ways of tracking the progress of each nation, according to CNN.
Mr. Obama also says that without ambitious action on climate change, people may be forced to flee island nations and will become refugees.
The climate meeting also included talks about threats of the Islamic State, less than three weeks after its attacks on meetings. But he says to hold each other accountable, it’s critical that “periodic reviews” be legally binding.
For the first time, the United States and China, the world’s two largest carbon producers, enter a climate change conference having made high-profile promises to substantially reduce carbon emissions.
President Obama sent a hopeful message to the United Nations climate talks Tuesday before he left Paris. He also said that focusing on climate change, even in the face of additional threats like ISIS, is key, because climate change is an underlying threat that, if not addressed now, will only take more and more of the country’s resources.
Hollande said, “The world, and in particular the developed world, owes the African continent an environmental debt”. Things could be different this time around, according to President Obama, who believes that the global community now has a “sense of urgency… and a growing realization that it is within our power to do something about it”.
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Yesterday, one major announcement from the sideline of the official talks came from Bill Gates.
