United Nations chief: Paris Summit must mark a turning point

A separate poll from the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication reflected these results, finding that 71 percent of Americans say an agreement in Paris is “important”, while 43 percent rate it as “very or extremely important”.

With a global climate deal under negotiation in Paris, the Republican-led US Congress on Tuesday is expected to repeal White House regulations on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, a move certain to spark President Barack Obama’s veto.

Obama told reporters he’s “convinced that we’re going to get big things done here”.

“As the president urges action to fulfill his personal climate legacy in Paris, the American people and their representatives in Congress have strongly voiced opposition to any deal that is reached and will not tolerate American tax dollars being used for an economically disastrous policy”, said Sen. “This is multiyear commitments that in many cases are already embedded in a whole range of programs around the world”.

Disagreement over how to share responsibility for curbing emissions is one of the thorniest issues, and developing nations have accused richer countries of hypocrisy for demanding they cut their use of fossil fuels after carbon-burning their way to prosperity.

Four questions at the press conference hit on the political realities in Washington, serving as a reminder that any United States government action on global warming is essentially all up to him.

“I think one of the dumbest statements I’ve ever heard in politics, in the history of politics as I know it, which is pretty good, was Obama’s statement that our number one problem is global warming”, Trump said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “We still need a Paris agreement”, Obama said. “That’s why I think people should be confident that we’ll meet our commitments”.

“There are millions of jobs in this country that are dependent on these industries, and you can’t just cut it off overnight and expect to have an economy that is, in fact, the leader in the world”. Last week, Secretary of State John Kerry branded India and its 1.25 billion people a “challenge” on climate change because they keep building carbon-spewing power plants. Bill Gates and 29 other billionaires took advantage of the timing to announce the largest private fund in history.

Although the targets themselves may not have the force of treaties, the process, the procedures that ensure transparency and periodic reviews, that needs to be legally binding and that s going to be critical in us having high ambitions and holding each other accountable.?

The United States, China and India account for about half of the world’s emissions of carbon dioxide, a gas that traps heat in the atmosphere and that scientists have identified as a leading cause of the rising global temperatures.

Chinese President Xi Jinping said that the conference “is not a finish line, but a new starting point” and that any agreement must take into account the differences among nations.