Obama: A GOP Pres Would Come Around On Climate Change

“I’m confident we’re going to be on the winning side of this”, Mr. Obama said.

The United Nations conference comes at a time of record high temperatures, more extreme droughts and storms, shrinking glaciers and melting ice packs – events that have helped make climate science more widely accepted.

In a snub to President Barack Obama, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives has voted to block his push to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

“Given the fact that they are more and more the source of carbon emissions, clearly we have felt throughout the course of this administration that China and India need to be a part of the solution”, he said.

Among those in attendance at the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) in Paris, which run from now through December 11, are what the Huffington Post called “the leaders of the world’s worst pollution countries”. It is clear that tackling climate change is no easy task and good intentions alone won’t secure a deal for future generations.

But the crowning achievement here – a global climate change deal has yet to be announced.

Obama says he wants to see a climate deal that allows countries update their carbon-reduction targets regularly and enables developing nations to use new technology to “skip the dirty phase of development”.

Meanwhile, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump said on Monday that Obama’s comments that climate change poses one of the greatest threats to the U.S. is one of the “dumbest things” ever said.

The climate meeting also included talks about threats of the Islamic State, less than three weeks after its attacks on meetings.

First, the legal nature of the agreement is yet to be determined.

The encounters highlighted another big debate in the effort to reach an worldwide accord to fight global warming: how much aid rich countries should give poor ones to help them adapt to climate change and reduce their emissions. But she said this creates the architecture for more ambitious plans in the years ahead that could keep global warming below the 2 deg C threshold.

The Hawaiian-born Obama referred to himself as “an island boy”, saying he understands the beauty and fragility of island life.

According to the French presdent’s office, those funds will represent an increase of 50 percent in French energy commitments in Africa from the past five years.

The once black-and-white world of climate negotiations for poorer countries has evolved into many shades of gray at talks this week in Paris.

“The world, and in particular the developed world, owes the African continent an environmental debt”, he said. Just this year, the U.N.’s weather agency says the average global temperature is set to rise by 1 degree Celsius, halfway to the limit the U.N.is seeking to impose.

After protesters clashed with police earlier this week, Paris police on Tuesday extended a ban on public demonstrations around the climate conference until it is over.