It poses a clear and present threat to our economic and national security. As a former minister of environmental protection, he has seen the country’s worsening air pollution – which shares the same causes as climate change – become a lightning rod for discontent. The White House already has promised the rest of the world that the US will cut its own emissions by at least 26 percent by 2025, an announcement made in conjunction with a vow from China, the world’s biggest polluter, to cap its emissions by 2030 and then begin reductions. That is why President Obama is heading to Paris on November 29th.
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“It poses immediate and long-term significant risks to sustainable development efforts and threatens the very survival of the 79 developing countries that make up the ACP group”, the statement said. Ban said while there is no question that developed countries need to take the lead on climate action, nations however have to move forward.
What would you do on your first day in an incredibly hot office? I say this often, but that’s because it’s always at the front of my mind: We’ve got to preserve this attractive planet of ours for our kids and grandkids. Climate change has no passport.
“We are engaging with the world at all possible levels”.
He thinks we can afford to do something more ambitious.
“I will be joining President Hollande and world leaders in Paris for the global climate conference”, Obama said Tuesday during a joint news conference with French President Francois Hollande. While both have seen the possibilities of signing up an agreement for future technologies they are yet to resolve radical differences on intellectual property rights in existing clean technologies and how to reduce the cost for the same.
The sources highlighted the country’s position that the developed world must recognise that they have to atone for the historical carbon emissions that they have been putting out in the atmosphere for over 150 years in their search for prosperity. It’s the largest step the United States has ever taken to combat climate change.
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In a media briefing on Wednesday (November 25), Climate Change Commissioner Emmanuel de Guzman said that the global warming target is insufficient and should be even less than 1.5 degrees Celsius. “[The agreement] has to recognise and respond to the circumstances and needs of the most vulnerable, who have not contributed to the problem of climate change yet have the most to lose due to its impacts”.
