For his meeting, he had noted a few points including that the Western countries must show flexibility at this point if the world is to see a Paris agreement.
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White House spokesman Josh Earnest says Obama is getting regular updates from administration officials in Paris. That is another reason that we need to ensure significant emissions reductions from all major emitters as failure to take bold action will lead to even greater damages on the communities that have contributed the least to climate pollution.
From the beginning of the summit, the country has insisted that rich countries must take most of the responsibility for climate change and foot the hefty bill for damage suffered by poor countries as a result of global warming.
He said the real cost of the global energy transformation would be in the trillions, but that the $100 billion was “a symbolic but important gesture and one should not run away from it”.
“This year we have seen an unprecedented display of climate action by countries all around the world with more than 185 nations submitting climate action plans ahead of COP21” said Dr. Sultan Al Jaber UAE Minister of State and Special Envoy for Energy and Climate Change. These and other countries that are most vulnerable to climate change view a more aggressive temperature goal as essential to their long-term survival and will likely remain steadfast in their support for such a goal in the agreement to be finalized by December 11.
But the clock is ticking on the tough timetable set by the French hosts of the United Nations conference, who want the deal wrapped up by Friday despite major stumbling blocks and areas of division between the 195 countries negotiating the agreement.
He says “I think you can write that aspiration into the agreement in a way that doesn’t make it a target”. The first, a sleight of hand that obscures the past, asserts that the only thing that matters in Paris is where individual countries are heading, not how the world ended up with global warming in the first place.
Making sure ambition can be raised is key to achieving the 2C limit – beyond which “dangerous” climate change is expected – or the more stringent 1.5C more than 100 countries have backed at the talks as current pledges by countries for climate action will only put the world on a path to nearly 3C.
The second premise builds on this to suggest that the global future is alarming because of India’s plans to significantly step up the use of coal to develop its economy and bring basics such as electricity to its all its people, at a time when the world is struggling to find a way to kick its fossil fuel habit.
In particular, they have been agitating to expand the donor base for climate funding to include the most advanced of the developing countries – notably China.
“These negotiations are not about “them” and “us”, said the European Union’s climate commissioner Miguel Arias on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, addressing world leaders in Paris on November 30, highlighted Pakistan’s efforts to address climate change within the context of Pakistan’s development and growth objectives.
LE BOURGET, France – Talks on a universal climate pact shifted to a higher gear Monday, with United Nations. Every nation has its own role to play in addressing climate change.
Ms Rudd said: “I am hopeful that we can get a deal, but I am not complacent”.
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Negotiators convened at the ongoing United Nations climate change conference in Paris are eyeing a post-2020 deal that will help to limit the rise in global temperatures to less than two degrees above pre-industrial levels.
