The United States has made ambitious
investments in clean energy and ambitious reductions in our carbon
emissions," Obama said. "Today I call on all countries to join us, not
next year or the year after that, but right now. Because no nation can
meet this global threat alone."
Obama was the headliner at a marathon
session of world leaders who promised to spend billions of dollars to
take better care of the planet. Tuesday's one-day meeting at the annual
UN General Assembly involving more than 100 world leaders was a forum
for non-binding pledges.
It was designed to lay the groundwork for
a new global treaty to tackle climate change in December 2015, but it
also revealed the sharp differences that divide countries on matters
such as deforestation, carbon pollution and methane leaks from oil and
gas production: Brazil, a key player in deforestation, said it wouldn't
sign a pledge to halt deforestation by 2030.
The United States decided not to join 73
countries in supporting a price on carbon, which Congress had indicated
it would reject.
And minutes after Obama said "nobody gets
a pass," China's Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli insisted the world treat
developing nations, including China, differently than developed nations,
allowing them release more heat-trapping pollution. China has signed a
carbon-pricing agreement.
"Today we must set the world on a new course," United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said in opening remarks.
"Climate change is the defining issue of
our age. It is defining our present. Our response will define our
future." In some ways, the climate summit answered that call.
The European Union said its member
nations would cut greenhouse gases so that by 2030 they would be 40
percent below the 1990 level.
Source: News in Hindi and Newspaper
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