Obama calls out China and Russia over climate crisis
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Barack Obama faulted U.S. rivals China and Russia at U.N. climate conference Monday for what he called a “dangerous lack of urgency” in cutting their own climate-wrecking emissions.
His comments came as conference leaders acknowledged Monday that many key sticking points exist after a week of talks. A trust gap between rich and poor nations on climate change issues emerged when the negotiations went through a check of what's been accomplished and what's left to be done. Developing countries used versions of the word "disappointing" five times when leaders talked Monday about the progress to date.
The U.N. climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, is the former American president's first since he helped deliver the triumph of the 2015 Paris climate accord, when nations committed to cutting fossil fuel and agricultural emissions fast enough to keep the Earth's warming below catastrophic levels of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit).