Obama speaks at COP26, says not enough progress on climate
Former U.S. President Barack Obama told the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Glasgow on Monday that most nations failed to meet their commitments made in the 2015 Paris Climate Conference agreement and the world is nowhere near where it needs to be in confronting climate change. Speaking during the second full week of the talks, known as COP26, Obama said that while the Paris conference and subsequent agreement showed what is possible and created a framework from which to address the challenges of the climate crisis, most nations failed to be as ambitious as they needed to be. "The escalation, the ratcheting up of ambition that we anticipated in Paris six years ago has not been uniformly realized," Obama said. He called it "particularly discouraging" that the leaders of China and Russia, two of the largest emitters, declined to even attend the conference, and both nations have demonstrated what he said "appears to be a dangerous lack of urgency" on climate change. China is the world's biggest carbon emitter.…
8 Nov 00:00 · Inlandnewstoday