“Some of our progress stalled when my successor decided to unilaterally pull out of the Paris Agreement in his first year in office,” former Pres. Obama says during remarks at COP26 climate summit. “I wasn’t real happy about that.”
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.
“I wasn’t real happy about that,” he admitted, but added that optimism is required to save the planet. “It was particularly discouraging to see the leaders of two of the world’s largest emitters, China and Russia, decline to even attend the proceedings, and their national plans reflect what appears to be a dangerous lack of urgency,” Obama said.
When he was briefing the U.N. climate conference on the first week’s progress, COP26 President Alok Sharma had to correct himself about the number of issues settled, changing “many” into “some.” 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 planet only a few years away from the point where 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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