'When it comes to climate, time really is running out,' Obama told climate advocates.
put America back in as soon as he took office this year but U.S. efforts at fighting climate change were set back years by the Trump move.Former U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland on Nov. 8.“1.5 C is on life support now, it’s in ICU,” said Alden Meyer, a long-time observer of climate talks with E3G, an environmental think tank.
Despite opposition within Biden’s own Democratic party that has blocked the climate-fighting legislation, Obama said he was confident that some version of Biden’s ambitious climate bill will pass in Congress in the next few weeks.
“All of us have a part to play. All of us have work to do. All of us have sacrifices to make” on climate, he said. “But those of us who live in wealthy nations, those of us who helped to precipitate the problem ... we have an added burden.” Representatives of 77 developing nations, along with China, said until this climate conference fixes the financial pledge problem to help poor nations cope with climate change these talks cannot be successful.
Scientists say the urgency of global warming is as great as the dire speeches at Glasgow have conveyed, with the planetwhere meeting the goals set in the Paris accord becomes impossible, due to mounting damage from coal, petroleum, agriculture and other pollution sources.
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