The other four were Presidents Alpha Condé of Guinea, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta of Mali, Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger and Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria.
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Republicans are telegraphing a message to world leaders at the start of the Paris climate talks: President Obama is all alone.
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.
“The younger the student, the more likely they are to be affected by climate change impacts”, Ryder said.
In the meeting between Xi and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the two leaders agreed to enhance cooperation in the fight against terrorism. “If I may use a strong word, I would say we are at the limits of suicide”, he said.
“If we could get a legally binding agreement with a compliance regime, that would be nirvana”, David Runnalls, a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Waterloo, Ont., said in an interview from Paris.
Republicans on the floor said they deliberately held the votes the same day as the president’s remarks at an global climate change conference in Paris to show the president faced opposition back home. The House is also set to vote later this week on an energy infrastructure reform bill.
“The global community needs to be aware that the US Congress and the American people do not support President Obama’s worldwide climate agenda”, said Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla), chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee. Climate change is a very serious problem and it should be focused upon.
His comments echoed the findings of a Pentagon report released a year ago that said climate change posed an immediate threat to national security.
“Two billion euros will be spent on renewable energy” – double the amount France provided in the preceding five years, he said.
“We ultimately want that the virtuous cycle of trust and confidence is restored in this process”.
Hollande said: “The world, and in particular the developed world, owes the African continent an environmental debt”.
At the heavily secured summit venue in Le Bourget on the northern outskirts of Paris, a city on edge since the November 13 terror attacks that killed 130 people, bureaucrats from 195 nations began a frantic negotiations.
In the pre-2020 period, the rich countries are required to provide financial support to the tune of United States dollars 100 billion a year, and were also committed to provide technology to developing countries to address climate change.
Individual governments have already mapped out their own versions of different plans to reduce emissions, called Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC), and this conference will make countries come to a common agreement about climate financing for poor countries and reducing emissions, according to TIME magazine.
One of the sticking points is who pays.
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Speaking after attending a historic climate summit with some 150 other leaders, Obama voiced confidence mankind would make the tough decisions needed to halt rising temperatures.
