Kenyatta, in his address to the conference, insisted that developed nations should support developing nations by providing the requisite technology, finance and expertise to enable them mitigate climate change. They represent about 95 percent of global greenhouse emissions, according to French top diplomat.
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“Given that we’re already locked into climate change trajectories for many years to come, increased investment in adaptation has to be at the core of the new climate agreement”, says Naoko Ishii, the head of the Global Environmental Facility that administers the fund, in a release.
French President Francois Hollande talks to the media after his meeting with Haitian President Michel Jospeh Martelly, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, 31 October 2014.
The conference site, a sprawling airfield outside Paris, was a remarkable scene as more than one hundred country leaders and several thousand official delegates and journalists converged. COP stands for Conference of Parties, an annual United Nations forum to try to tackle climate change on a global political level.
Some in Congress claim that the COP21 summit, which began on Monday, is a waste of taxpayer money and will result in agreements that harm the USA economy. The participants plan to adopt a cooperative pact on water and adaptation to climate change, as well as gain commitments from different government, civil, and private sector groups to work together on improving the resilience of water resources.
“I don’t think we’re out of step with public opinion wanting jobs, wanting economic growth, weighing the costs and the benefits”, Ryan said.
In a report produced by the bank they found that if there is no development aimed at helping African countries deal with climate change that 43 million more people in the region of sub-Saharan Africa could plummet into extreme poverty in the next 15 years.
And Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-S.C., said he wished Obama took the threat posed by “radical jihadists” such as the Islamic State as seriously as he takes what Duncan called a “pseudoscientific threat” posed by climate change. “And that’s going to be critical in us having high ambitions and holding each other accountable”, he said. Many people have voiced out about why he is a awful president.
Obama has spent months prodding other countries to make ambitious carbon-cutting pledges to the agreement, which would last long beyond the end of his presidency in early 2017.
A similar effort to reach a binding agreement to address climate change had all but collapsed by the time Obama and his counterparts arrived in the Danish capital near the conclusion of the summit in 2009.
“The actions taken in the next decade will either avert the worst harms from climate disruption by limiting warming to below 1.5 degrees Celsius or commit the world to unacceptable harms for billions of people”, the letter states.
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When many leaders of countries worldwide are sitting down in Paris at the United Nations climate summit to hammer out substantive measures to save the planet, Republicans in Congress are playing their usual “against everything game”.
