Tinaai Teaua, a 23-year-old from Kiribati, has flown to Paris for the talks and says she’s “fighting for my future”.
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Negotiators from 195 nations raced Saturday to complete a four-year mission by delivering a blueprint to secure humanity from the consequences of rampant emissions of climate-altering greenhouse gases. “Mayors are closer to the ground are closer to the people and they’re closer to the solutions and we need solutions rather than talk”, Redford told the AP. He says, in OR, the shellfish industry is suffering, forest fires are prevalent and the Cascade Mountains are seeing a smaller snowpack. “There’s no doubt that China is still a huge contributor to global carbon emissions”, Li Yan of Greenpeace China said in a statement, “but there’s also hope that the link between economic growth and CO2 is being weakened”. We can not get depressed (Stage 4) while we wait for the fossil fuel industry to accept (Stage 5) the truth and move forward.
Taking up from where Smith has left off, next week presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Addressing fossil fuel dependence and stopping more damage to the planet is of utmost importance, and we need all the information we can get.
Among the many Americans in Paris to observe climate talks are several Austin officials: Mayor Steve Adler and Council Member Leslie Pool, joined by Michael Osborne, chairman of Austin’s Electric Utility Commission – which helps steer Austin Energy policy, and Brigid Shea, a Travis County commissioner long associated with environmental groups.
Senators Cory Booker of New Jersey, Chris Coons of Delaware, Al Franken of Minnesota, Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Jeff Merkley of Oregon, Brian Schatz of Hawaii, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Tom Udall of New Mexico and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island are also part of the delegation. Meanwhile, Germany and France have both backed an even more aggressive warming limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius, though Saudi Arabia and India will block it. Developing countries including Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Sudan blocked a deal accepted by others.
A weak agreement remains the greatest danger for the Paris talks as the summit now enters its final week.
The process of measuring, reporting and verifying national actions, called transparency, as well as reporting on national actions and review of those actions would all be legally binding, he said. “That’s a general rule of worldwide treaty laws”.
While India has been targeted for expanding its coal usage, New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment said focusing only on coal and India was an “unnecessary distraction” and creating “bad blood” at the conference.
Thomson ReutersU.S. President Barack Obama speaks during the National Christmas Tree Lighting and Pageant of Peace ceremony in WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama defended his remarks about the threat posed by climate change, saying Republicans, including U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump, were “the only people” disputing the gravity of the problem.
Further add in the complication that big developing nations, such as China, India and Brazil are now among the world’s top carbon dioxide (CO2) emitters, with China by far the largest, producing about a quarter of all mankind’s CO2.
DiCaprio, one of the world’s most famous actors but also a longtime environment campaigner, told negotiators they had the option of being “timid” and settling for a face-saving agreement.
The many thousands of governors, mayors, companies and investors who have so publicly committed to climate action are telling governments that our job in Paris is a climate change agreement that opens every possible door to help them push further and faster ahead, said Laurent Fabius, the French Foreign Minister and President of COP21, at a press conference.
Though 184 countries have presented plans to cut or curb emissions of greenhouse gases, many are conditional on financial support from wealthy countries.
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Wise people remind us of the moral responsibility to act in solidarity with the poor and most vulnerable who have done least to cause climate change but will be the first to suffer most and the worst.
