New draft emerges at Paris climate talks

More than 180 nations representing more than 90 per cent of global emissions have come forward with their individual reduction targets, he said.

It’s usually an issue that’s not taken in account, but human beings are one of the things most affected by climate change.

“Amidst the French state of emergency banning all public gatherings following the terrorist attacks on 13 November in Paris, the “Brandalism” project has worked with Parisians to insert unauthorised artworks across the city that aim to highlight the links between advertising, consumerism, fossil fuel dependency and climate change”, the group said in a statement.

He says Obama has all the authority he needs to enter into this type of binding agreement, thanks in part to a 1992 directive approved by the U.S. Senate. “Here you go, you earned it”, he tells each one.

Obama added: “These nations are not the most populous nations, they don’t have big armies (…) but they have a right to dignity and sense of place”. The Kyoto Protocol was an unprecedented but unsuccessful 1990s climate pact that attempted to force wealthy nations to reduce emissions of climate-changing pollution by specific amounts.

US President Barack Obama, China’s Xi Jinping and many other leaders vowed their nations would strive to limit heat-trapping “greenhouse” gases that stoke global warming. “There are hundreds of billions of dollars ready to deploy to countries around the world if they get the signal that we mean business this time”.

“Options for compromise need to be found as quickly as possible”.

America wants a new global approach to solving the climate problem – one that relies on the adoption of ambitious but voluntary national strategies.

“COP is rigged for rich countries”, read one banner, referring to the conference’s formal name COP21.

China must take an active role in the Paris talks, not only to show it is a responsible partner, but also because it is in the country’s long-term interests to rein in global warming.

In an effort to bridge the diplomatic divide between rich and poor, which have dogged the annual climate parlays, Hollande promised Tuesday two billion euros in the next four years to help Africa move towards clean energy sources. The meeting is part of larger talks outside Paris this week and next aimed at an worldwide accord to fight global warming.

Hollande said, “The world, and in particular the developed world, owes the African continent an environmental debt”.

Gambia’s environment minister, Pa Ousman Jarju, also demanded money for poor nations to pay for the fallout of climate change events – known as loss and damage. Beyond the need for an agreement, the leaders spelt out their country positions and elements that they considered to be essential to the agreement.

Rising temperatures and unusual weather patterns that have resulted from excessive emissions of carbon dioxide have had an adverse impact on the environment and on people’s livelihoods.

US President Obama was among the leaders in attendance, and he spoke to others at the COP 21 climate summit. The leaders agreed that something must be done to protect the planet for future generations, but now must overcome disagreements over who should shoulder the economic responsibility for cutting emissions and protecting countries already hit by climate change.

A day after world leaders pledged to tame global warming, bureaucrats from 195 nations scrambled to shape a labyrinthine 54-page text into a blueprint that can be approved by December 11. Envoys are urging greater efforts against illegal logging.

India’s action plan for the summit undertakes to cut emissions intensity by 33 to 35 percent below the 2005 levels by 2030, by when it would also increase the share of electricity generated without fossil fuels to 40 percent from today’s 30 percent.

“In his first term, he did very little about climate, and that gave the rest of the world plenty of cover for inaction”, McKibben said.