Obama to meet with leaders of China, India at COP21 climate summit

China is the world’s largest polluter and will be a key player at the meeting in the face of disputes over whether developed or developing countries should bear more of the burden for reducing emissions.

He said the USA has broadened the scope of the countries that are participating in the Summit.

The UK has faced fierce criticism at home, however, for cuts to renewable and energy efficiency support and most recently for axing a £1 billion competition to develop technology to capture and store carbon emissions from power stations and industry. That is why President Obama is heading to Paris on November 29th.

“It’s vulnerable, of course, to the leadership of the next administration”.

The document, which is being presented to the 102nd Session of the ACP Council of Ministers, notes that the fight against climate change must be tackled in an “urgent, cohesive and decisive manner at the worldwide, regional and national levels, collectively by both developed and developing countries taking into consideration the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities”.

Giving the details of the Paris meet, Javdekar said that this would also coincide with India’s major “solar alliance” to be co-hosted with France.

“I think he’s there kind of as a cheerleader for USA interests”, she said.

“Why do I care so much about this issue?”

The Philippine delegation is composed of over 50 veteran negotiators from different government agencies such as the Department of Agriculture (DA), Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC), and the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), among others. “To some extent, the president’s hands are tied”. The 12-day conference aims at achieving legally binding and consensual agreement on the concerning issue of global warming.

Already human-induced climate change is making extreme weather such as heatwaves more likely, the latest assessment from the UN’s World Meteorological Organisation has shown.

As for Mr. Obama, officials say there is a strategy behind the timing of his visit. This according to them was absolutely fair on the part of developing nations to expect and demand in the climate summit.

Two hundred governments will gather in Paris on Monday to draft an worldwide agreement on climate change that will replace the ineffective Kyoto Protocol when it expires in 2020.

President Barack Obama is hoping to generate early momentum for worldwide climate talks in Paris next week by holding one-on-one meetings there with the leaders of China and India.