(EFE).- Barack Obama on Monday told the COP26 that the world was “nowhere near” its climate targets and that more needed to be done to achieve the goals set out in the Paris Agreement.
The former United States president addressed a full conference room at the United Nations summit taking place in Glasgow, Scotland.
In a broad speech, he set time aside to take a swipe at his successor Donald Trump, criticized China and Russia’s leader for skipping the COP26 and urged young climate activists not to give up on their cause.
“Back in the United States, some of our progress stalled when my successor unilaterally decided to pull out of the Paris Agreement in his first year of office, I wasn’t real happy about that,” he said.
He argued, however, that the US weathered the “active hostility toward climate science” from Trump’s White House.
“The American people managed to still meet our original commitment under the Paris Agreement.”
“And now, with President (Joe) Biden, and the US administration rejoining the Agreement, the US government is once again engaged and ready to take on a leadership role.”
“We are nowhere near where we need to be yet.”
He continued: “Despite the progress that Paris represented, most countries failed to meet the action plans that they set six years ago and the consequences of not moving fast enough are becoming apparent all the time.”
He added that he was disappointed that neither Xi Jinping nor Vladimir Putin had attended the COP26 summit in Glasgow, saying it appeared to demonstrate “a dangerous lack of urgency.”
“We need advanced economies like the US and Europe leading on this issue. But you know the facts, we also need China and India leading on this issue. We need Russia leading on this issue just as we need Indonesia and South Africa and Brazil.”
Obama said the world was going through a period of greater political tension partly down to the pandemic, partly due to the rise of nationalism and, in reference to Trump, a “lack of American leadership.”
He said the climate crisis transcends day-to-day politics.
Bringing his speech to a close, Obama directed a message toward young climate activists, urging them to channel their anger and frustration.
“Keep pushing harder and harder for more and more, because that is what is required to meet this challenge,” he said, adding that keeping in line with the Paris Agreement pledge to hold temperatures under 1.5C above pre-industrial levels would not be easy.
“Our planet has been wounded by our actions, those wounds won’t be healed today or tomorrow or the next, but they can be healed.
“If we pledge to do our part and then follow through on those commitments, I believe we can secure a better future, we have to.
“I’m ready for the long-haul if you are, so let’s get to work,” he concluded to rapturous applause.EFE
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“Obama said the world was going through a period of greater political tension partly down to the pandemic, partly due to the rise of nationalism and, in reference to Trump, a “lack of American leadership.”
Well, Obama bin Lyin, you are right in your assertion that there is a lack of American leadership—its just, as usual, you misidentify the source. Your two terms were atrocious and the present administration is trying very hard to outdo that. You continue to run your big mouth, stirring up as much animosity as you can—promoting your racist and anti-America views. You are working your third term through your puppet, Biden. Your contempt for Trump rests solely upon the fact that he made you look really bad—he accomplished what you never could and you even made public statements asserting that he could not accomplish certain things which he did accomplish.
Go away, Barack—and take your puppet with you because both of you are a disgrace to this country. Neither of you are leadership material and you both make royal fools of yourselves trying to be impressive and authoritarian.
For weeks i have been saying HE IS THE PUPPET master over brainless biden.
Oboob is George Soros’ puppet.
He’s such a DORK and people in Hawaii didn’t support him. They said he would bring us closer to danger if he was to enter the Whitehouse.
A dork is a higher life form than Oboob.
#1. The The PinocchiObama Lies and Lies about EVERYTHING!!
#2. This PinocchiObama is the main puppeteer and master of the demented, corrupt, puppet president F. Joe Biden.
President “F (Joe) Biden, and the US administration rejoining the Agreement, the US government is once again engaged and ready to take on a misleadership role.” Everything that this puppet president F. Joe Biden has done has been destructive and deceptive Lies.
Obama said the world was going through a period of greater political tension partly down to the pandemic, partly due to the rise of nationalism and “lack of American leadership.” Since the reign of the socialist Democrat Party’s demented puppet president Biden and his treasonous puppet masters.
Shadow Presidents who turn their back on the light and the light of truth, like Biden and Obama turn their backs on truth seeking questions, can only live to see their shadows grow longer and larger as they retreat from the light. It is what the people of darkness live for. The people of the light who walk toward the light and the light of truth, cast all their shadows behind them where they belong. The same should be done to ALL shadow presidents who turn their backs on the light only to grow bigger, longer, larger shadows that cover THE PEOPLE in their progressive darkness, and growing failures.
What’s wrong with nationalism? I am a part-Asian who was born here and my family were raised Christian and fought in our wars.
We are also descended from white people and Cherokees.
Cherokees must necessarily be nationalistic. LOL The tribe owned black slaves at one time but so did black people!
The white people did the most to keep us safe in WWII.
Go jump in a lake, Obama – you were raised by a Subud cult member and they are anti-nationalism. You are also a sore loser and were raised in an odd family, to say the least.
Blacks being prideful in their culture – GREAT
Asians being prideful in their culture – You must respec us..
Muslims being prideful in their culture – Awesome..
WHITES being prideful in their culture – RHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!
This overblown ex-president has so many windmills spinning in his brain he needs to either don a Beany Copter or switch to a Red MAGA hat and save what is left of his own Biden-like depleted brain. The very words “Paris Agreement” is an outright oxymoron, as there is and never has been an agreement by Russia or China to participate, but just keep freely chugging out environmental pollution for an economic energy advantage, while the USA is handcuffed by puppets like Obama who loves his socialism more than he even loves Kenya, and the alcoholic father that abandoned him, and birthed created him as an illegitimate son, having a wife and 3 other children back home in Kenya where he crashed and killed himself into a tree upon returning. Obama is the quintessential personification of illegitimate, particularly when it come to all things American. Embrace him at your own peril of becoming as illegitimate and unamerican as he is. His disgraceful refusal to recuse himself from interfering post President in American politics as all other Presidents have is proof positive of his political pathology.
“Old Soldiers never die, they simply fade away.” – McArthur
“ Old sold and Soviet bought Presidents don’t never die, and NEVER fade away when personal enrichment and power can be purchased with the price of your integrity, with America paying the cost.
Let’s go Obama.
You don’t speak for US. Never did.
Guess Obama got a chance to pretend he’s president. That’s really all he ever did anyway.
What an arrogant, narcissistic fool. If seas are going to rise, due to “climate change”, “ global warming”, or whatever term his ilk can come up with, why did he buy a multi-million dollar mansion on the sea shore? Oh, silly me, at his first inaugural address, he did say that because he was elected, the seas were not going to rise, or some such thing. Interesting how he portrays himself as a “god”, with all power and knowledge of how the earth’s atmosphere functions and how we should live our lives. I think he is &@(x?!#*~=, and that is just being civil!
I think Shadow President is a racist term.
He’s actually Old Fade.