Barack Obama expressed confidence at UN climate talks Monday that the Biden administration will ultimately get its US$555 billion climate package through Congress, and faulted U.S. rivals China and Russia for what he called a 'dangerous lack of urgency' in cutting their own climate-wrecking emissions.
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND -- Barack Obama expressed confidence at UN climate talks Monday that the Biden administration will ultimately get its US$555 billion climate package through Congress, and faulted U.S. rivals China and Russia for what he called a "dangerous lack of urgency" in cutting their own climate-wrecking emissions.
His comments came as conference leaders acknowledged Monday that many key sticking points exist after a week of talks. A trust gap between rich and poor nations has once again emerged and developing countries used the word "disappointing" when leaders talked Monday about the progress to date in the talks.
"It doesn't matter if you're a Republican or a Democrat if your Florida house is flooded by rising seas, or your crops fail in the Dakotas, or your California house is burning. Nature, physics, science -- they don't care about party affiliation," Obama said. "We need everybody -- even if we disagree on other things."
Despite opposition within Biden's own Democratic party that has blocked the president's climate-fighting legislation, Obama was confident that some version of Biden's ambitious climate bill will pass and be "historic."And while the rapport between U.S. and Chinese negotiators paved the way to the Paris accord, Obama on Monday criticized Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin for not joining other leaders at the climate talks in Glasgow.
"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." "There is a history of broken promises and unfulfilled commitments by developed countries," said Diego Pacheco Balanza of Bolivia.
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