This conference is being held with hopes of coming to a worldwide agreement.
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“We’re eagerly awaiting a picture of the banner in Paris amongst world leaders”, said Madeline Ryder, a developmental practice graduate student and the committee chair of the Students for Sustainability Energy and Climate Committee.
French President Francois Hollande said he was encouraged by the start of a conference that is planned to run until 11 December.
Not to mention the fact climate change could force millions out of their homes.
Javadekar said the need of the hour is that the developed world “must walk the talk, must come out with more ambitious numbers for their pre-2020 commitment” and come out with a separate subhead to their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), as today’s INDCs of developed world subsumes their pre-2020 targets.
The conference takes place in a new location each year.
If implemented, plans submitted by 146 countries would limit the increase in the globe’s temperature to 2.7 degrees Celsius. The US was amongst the countries that negotiated the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 but its Senate refused to ratify it.
Environmentalists want to boost the amount of aid in the Green Climate Fund, which is supposed to compensate developing countries for the costs of adapting to global warming and to help them generate their own energy without turning to fossil fuels.
Attempts to inscribe a long-term goal to phase out carbon emissions in an envisioned global climate pact are facing pushback at United Nations talks from big developing countries including India and Brazil.
“If somebody doesn’t play the game, it means everybody suffers”, Tveit said.
Meanwhile, amid the talks near Paris, the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives was directly challenging President Obama’s environmental policies, scheduling votes on Tuesday afternoon that would strike down rules on reducing carbon emissions from power plants, both current and future.
It’s not China or the United States.
“The US Senate will not be ignored”.
“The good news is this is not an American trend alone”, Obama said. “We have the Clean Power Plan, which is suppose to reduce emissions across the board”.
He says a deal is critical to the global economy and to US national security.
“The people of our country want action”, Bahr said.
“They’re doing the EPA regulations but there has been pushback on that”, Tveit said.
“There is a lot of work to do here in Paris, and the stakes are very high, especially for the most vulnerable people and countries”, he underlined.
Obama, who considers the issue to be an important part of his legacy, courted Chinese President Xi Jinping and came away with an agreement past year to tackle the issue together. Obama has said he will veto them.
President Obama wrapped up his visit to the Paris climate talks on Tuesday by defending his decision to focus on the environment in the midst of a war in Syria and brushing off threats that his climate change efforts would be thwarted by Republicans in Washington.
Africa produces little of the greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, produced by burning fossil fuels, linked by scientists to rapid climate change.
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“We don’t care whether it’s nuclear, solar or hydro”, Emanuel said. Does that make them bad guys?
