French President Francois Hollande’s popularity has risen to its highest level in three years with voters backing his robust handling of the November 13 militant attacks that killed 130 people in Paris, two polls showed on Tuesday.
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“The plight of refugees we see today… and increasing terrorism and radicalism, represents a small measure of what the world, mankind, will face if we do not tackle climate change”.
A paper in the USA journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in March said there was evidence that man-made climate change had contributed to a 2007-10 drought in Syria that was a contributing factor to the civil war. Scientists have linked the emission of greenhouse gases to rapid climate change.
While the talks are ongoing, the world looks to the COP21 to deliver a new climate agreement that will be realistic and reduce the effect of climate change on different continents of the world, especially Africa.
Many said the decision to press on with the summit in Paris so soon after the attacks was itself a rebuke to extremists trying to sow fear and disrupt normal life.
Helping the continent develop renewables is also a way of securing its security, he added in his meeting with more than a dozen heads of state and government.
“The future of the people of the world, the future of our planet, is in your hands”, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told negotiators in his opening remarks.
The last major climate agreement, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, required only rich countries to cut emissions, and the U.S. never signed on.
Money channeled into emergency spending to deal with the crises was money the country might otherwise be spending on its development, he said. “Our goal must be a transformation”.
In a pair of op-eds, Republican leaders repeated long-standing arguments against the U.S.s involvement in an global climate deal, warning that such an accord wouldnt pass muster in Congress and saying Obama is ignoring the energy reality at home.
“It brings a new kind of burst of energy into the conference right at the beginning on something very important”.
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African leaders want the biggest polluting nations to commit to financing as part of contributions to an internationally administered Green Climate Fund, that hopes to dispense $100 billion a year after 2020 as a way to finance the developing world’s shift towards renewables. “Every year the problems are getting worse”.
