the most significant investment to deal with the climate crisis that any advanced nation is made ever. we're going to cut us greenhouse gas emissions by well over a gig or ton by 2030 while making it more affordable for consumers to save on their own energy bills. with tax credits for things like installing solar panels, whether rising their homes, lowering energy prices will also deliver cleaner air and water for our children. electrifying fleets of school bus is increasing credits for electric vehicles and addressing legacy pollution. it will incentivize clean energy manufacturing. 5 building the solar panels in the wind turbines that are growing energy markets of the future. which are craig good pain, union jobs for america workers. and something that none of us should lose sight of . my talk to the american people about climate change. i tell them it's about jobs . it's about workers who will lay thousands of miles and transmission lines of

clean, modern, resilient power grid. your auto workers will the next generation of electric vehicles. electricians will install a nationwide network of 500000 vehicles stations to power in them throughout my country. the engineers will design new carbon capture systems and the construction workers will make them route a reality. the farmers will not only help fight global hunger, but also use the soil to fight climate climate change the communities that revitalize themselves around new industries and opportunities. and because we are taking all these actions united states to be able to meet ambitious target, i've said the leaders summit and climate back in april reducing us emissions by 50 to 52 percent below 20 o. 5 levels by 2030 will demonstrate to the world the united states is not only back of the table, but hopefully lee,

by the power of our example. i know it hasn't been the case and that's why my administration is working overtime. to show that our climate commitment is action not words. on my very 1st day in office, i took action, returned the united states to the prior to agreement. since then, our administration has been hard at work on locking clean energy breakthroughs to drive down the cost of technologies that require us to do to achieve net 0 emissions and working with the private sector on the next generation of technologies that will power claim economy of the future over the next several days, united states to re announce a new initiative demonstrate our commitment to providing innovation solutions across multiple sectors from agriculture to oil and gas to combating deforestation . deforestation to tackling harder, and to abate industries or planning for both short term sprint.

230-2030, that will keep 1.5 degrees celsius in reach. and for a marathon that will take us, take us to the finish line and transform the largest economy the world into a thriving, innovative, equitable, and just clean energy engine of net 0 for a net 0 world. that's why today i'm releasing the u. s. long term strategy, which presents a vision of achieving the united states goal of ned 0 mission is economy wide by no later than 2050 and reinforces an absolutely critical nature of taking bold action with it's a decisive decade. we're also going to try to do our part when it comes to helping the rest of the world take action as well. we want to do more to help countries around the world, especially developing countries accelerate their clean energy transition. address pollution in the sure, the world. we all must share. a cleaner,

safe for healthiest planet. we have an obligation to help united nations at the united since in september i now so my administration is working with congress to quadruple our climate finance support for developing countries by 2024, including significant increases support for adaptation efforts. this commitment is made possible to each of our collective goals and mobilizing a $100000000000.00 annually for climate finance. but mobilizing finance to the scale necessary to meet the incredible need is an all hands on deck effort. as other speakers today mentioned, government in the private sector and multi lateral development banks must also do their work to go from millions, billions to trillions the necessary effect of this transition. today, i'm also submitting a new adaptation communication lane, our how will implement the global goal of adaptation,

as well as announcing our 1st ever contribution to the adaptation fun, what our commitment is about more than just financing. that's a critical piece of it. are also going to support solutions across the board. lead up to this gather and united states joined our g 7 partners, the launch of bill bag, better world initiative. we also reconvene the major economies form an energy climate to launch transformative actions and to raise ambition. and together with the european union, we're launching a global methane place to collectively reduce methane emissions. one of the most potent greenhouse gases by least 30 percent by the end of the decade. more than 70 countries have already signed up to support rapid reduction of methane pollution, and i encourage every nation to sign on is, is the simple most effective strategy. we have the slow global warming in the near term. my friends, if we're to recognize that a better,

more hopeful future of every nation has to do as part with ambitious target. so keep 1.5 degrees in reach and specific plans of how to get there. especially the major economists is impaired or very support developing nations. so they can be our partners in this effort right now. we're still falling short. there's no more time to hang back or sit in the fence or argue amongst ourselves. this is a challenge of our collective life times the exit central thread, threat to human existence as we know it. and every day we delay the cost of an action increases. so let this be the moment that we answer, history call here and glasgow. let this be the start of a decade of transformative action. the preserves are planning, raises the quality of life for people everywhere. we can do this, we just have to make a choice to do so let's get to work and thank you. those of us were responsible for

much of the deforestation, all the problems we have. so for an overwhelming obligations of the nations who went back were not there, have not done. and we have to help much more than we have thus far. god bless you all and may god save the planet. thank you. and there we were hearing from the u. s. president joseph our minds and addressing the cobbler 26 summits in glasgow. he said that climate change as an existential threat since destroying lives and livelihoods. barnes said that the u. s. is back at the table and leading by example, he did note that this summit represents an incredible opportunity for all of us to create an environment. so we're leaving for our children. and he said that there

was a moral and economic imperative to tackle climate change. and he underlines the action that the u. s. was taken at home, but also a commitment there to help developing may choose to shorter the burden of climate change or environment add to certain nick clark is in glasgow listening to that speech, but also with the full coverage and scope. 26 gets under way. nick her a speech that many world wide are waiting for to hear from the us. presidents. what were your main takeaways from that? well, we just heard from the president of the 2nd biggest emitter in the world, joe biden, a key player here. it's called 26, and these are the early stages of cult 26. those will lead it's from around the world and deliver national statements. he is a manacles who brought the united states back into the paris, screamed off to donald trump. to him, out of the paris agreement,

back in was at 2016, shortly after he took office. and joe biden say, all the right things that this is the decisive decade. keep to the goal of we can keep the goal of one and a half degrees celsius, 1.5 to receive. if we come together, we can do this. that's how much effect these words will have either. no, let's make to jay's bases. our diplomatic editor, of course, and james, they're joe biden. they're very much talking about a plan of action. but his plan of action is working right now. those interesting, you got the speech. they're so used to him ending it with god bless america, god save the planet. and he's talking all the right word. so different from donald trump. but does he actually have the tools to do what he says he's going to do? he referenced his build bat back better program. that's a massive, massive spending plan that he needs. and quite a bit of that is for his green program. but already he's had to scale it back and this plan doesn't exist. it hasn't passed through congress. and the interesting thing is it hasn't passed through congress because of just 2 people, really,

2 of his own senators on his own party because he's got such a narrow majority in congress. 5050 in the senate and just his as vice president as, as the casting vote. so the fact that they've got these 2 sen centers, jo, mansion, president cinema who are holding out on environmental issues means that this has not come through. now that what the u. s had hoped and had been intense efforts and negotiations on capitol hill was to give him the tools to come here to show the world. not only that, he's gonna say 3 different things from donald trump. he's going to do different things from donald trump, but they didn't hit deadline. his come here, i think without the methods to do what he says is going to do. and i think that's going to be noticed by the, the other countries. what had to happen here in glasgow was the stars all to a line to try and get everyone on board. i think one factor that is worry is that biden hasn't got that congressional plan. a congressional legislation in place. other things, i think it worrying the fact that you haven't got some of the key leaders here. you

haven't got president, she of china, your hunger president, putin, of russia. you need people in the same room when you doing important diplomacy, like this to trump bang heads together. that was the idea of the g 20. that took place over the we can get everyone on in the same place, get it, get the momentum for this. and we're not over yet, there's lots of diplomacy to go. but early on it's not looking great. so talking that diplomacy, the u. s. has got a very big team head, of course by john kerry, who was a bomb as right hand climate man. so what will they try and bring to the party in terms of negotiations here and, and how does international diplomacy have an effect with the inside these holes outside of the climate arena? i think they're pulling all sorts of leave is to try and get things going. it's worth remembering. yes, this is all about the environment. it's all about the science is all about the huge existential existential threat as president biden put it. but whenever you have a big negotiation, there is all sorts of horse trading. other things get bought into the mix. if you

do something on this here at glasgow in return will do this and i think that will play into it. and i think also the tone of international relations, which are extremely difficult right now. all sorts of divisions, particularly between the west and russia, the west and china. and then in some ways, made even worse by code 19 and the distribution of vaccines, the tension that is going on between the developing and the developed world. they, i think, are potential problems. we don't know that this is going to be a fail here. i think there was certainly they'll be some successes from this, but isn't going to be the complete success that everyone had hope for not clear at this stage and already some leaders are talking about, well, we'll get some things done. and this is an incremental process. we're in the past, we were told this was the make or break. so it all happened had to happen right here in glasgow. yes. that language is subtle, changes that are just not being thanks for much dazed razor diplomatic editor. well,

let's look at the 2 ends of the emissions scale and kick off with china, which emits more greenhouse gases. and all developing countries combines more than 14000000000 tons of carbon dioxide, in fact, methane and by the gases of pumped into the air each year. now overall, china accounts for around 27 percent of global emissions, and that's followed by the united states. the india, the in you and indonesia, united states in europe have been the worst polluters historically. and that is something that we just heard. joe biden, allude to on the other side of the spectrum of gluten and sir, and i'm, which of not any carbon neutral there. carbon negative. all right, let's hear now from liberia. nick hack has this report. it is deep in liberia as gideon forest region, that samuel dory comes to mourn his friends inside these coffins is maria. the farmer grieves if the pasture, renee, the village shopkeeper,

the cause of their death, samuel says, is the nearby rubber plantation of the tire manufacturing company. firestone, a long hill. it started with a coffee, says doorway accuses the company of toys and the water they used for drinking. informing or did i hastily hiscock and robert, bring an air and water pollution? i'm feeling hurt. these are my citizens still, i am very angry. i keep saying it over and over. the government doesn't care about it yesterday since writing, you see the destruction our be law. this is not supernatural law destruction, but from debt to water was the government knows of firestone is exploiting only a 5th of the 10000 square kilometer land concession, but it is expanding as the 99 year government lease was renewed in 2005. the company is clearing large parts of liberia as guinea and forest reaching home to where species of animals like the pig, me, hippo,

and western chimps. their habitat is under threat environmental as say the rivers are contaminated with heavy metals, killing aquatic life. all this is supposed to be the lungs of west africa, but right here in the forest tone concession, the air is thick with chemicals, it's things the eyes. now in the statement firestone says it's doing all the count to mitigate the effect of climate change. and it is sticking to the current librarian laws to protect the environment. labyrinth rents at the bottom of the environmental performance index with researcher saying that the country is behind its regional peers, particularly in protecting the biodiversity, ensuring habitat conservation, and preventing climate change. who are followed or who are part of the industrial we're part of the family who have the, the grid up potential to destroy our, if it is not us. and then when you make a report and think that we are doing less, what are you doing? you and i do more as work i bear is poor and indebted government has given almost

half of the country's land in concession stewed, multinational companies in order to repay its debt to international creditors. these companies are exploiting the countries rich natural resources and displacing tens of thousands of people in the process most are making the country's capital. their home. faced with this influx authorities are unable to manage the expanding slums in clear, the mounting waste with a capital barely one meter above sea level, the rising ocean is now destroying their homes for liberians. there is no escape from the effect of climate change. doorway sees in this coffins, a reminder for future generations of what caused his friends death at home, and the pollution that can no longer be ignored or destroying the lives of so many nicholas hawk al jazeera and by monrovia. oh has take you a back to the arena in glasgow where she has sina is addressing the summer. it's

the prime, it less listening to the prime minister of bangladesh be addressed including global sharing of responsibility for climate. my gas displaced by sea level rise. so learn, judy, increase river, you know, soon clar drawers and all i thank you very much for giving me the support you do. thank you. thank you. you're ready. oh, it's here. we appear to come see a shake and seen a quite late as to we didn't get the gist of that speech. but of course, bangladesh is one of the countries are which will be badly affected by a climate change. and it is being badly affected by climate change. let's take he back to our environment adversary where nick clark is there

a for as nate vaccine? yeah, thanks very much for that. so yes. so i will clip up some of what she cassini was saying and give it more, but just of exactly what she did address to the delegates. but as you say, bangladesh, a very critical country right in the front line of climate change as a country of 170000000 people are very low lying. millions of people are already being displaced by rising was as it is exceptionally vulnerable, low elevation, high population. it's right on the teeth of all this. so be very interesting to hear more about what she had to say. okay, we were just, we just had a report from nick carr, kim liberia, which was one of the circle, dirty countries in the world. let's go to the greenest country. the world i met his denmark, his journal, hope the greatest country in the world. indeed, number one on the environmental protection index that measures 180 countries according to a whole range of environmental and climate mitigations from clean air,

to renewable energy and so on. and one thing the danes do really spectacularly well the cycle pub cycle routes. this country is leading the clean transport revolution as well, up to 50 percent of all journeys to work across the country. it's believed are made by bicycle at the moment and they hope that by 2025 in just a few years time, 75 percent of all journeys will be made by cycle by foot or by public transport. you know, such is the enormous focus on green policies, green action in this country that is close to the heart of old dames. that's been at the front of public policy and politics for nearly 50 years. that there's barely a business here that con, boast of its green credentials, and i'm joined by a c e o. patricia place now who runs a company called eco hotels, a sustainable booking platform. patricia so. so what do you, do you connect guests with hotels? that me to sort of minimal green threshold. is it exactly what we wanted to do was

tap into the travel market, the tourism industry. and what we do is offer a booking side only for sustainable hotels and just means that the hotels are all equal certified. meaning that there is minimal plastic meaning that the waterway systems are thought through. and all the operations is actually sustainable from the start to the end. and we build is 2 years ago to actually try to make a difference. what is it about this focus on green action, but seems to be so close to the hearts of so many people. everybody, it seems to me in, in the, in denmark, where does it come from? what about, i think, especially my generation old, grew up wanting to do a difference and we heard about this our whole entire life. and a lot of us individual are sitting there not knowing what actually to do. so we wanted to try to make it different someplace and especially the travel in mystery is one aspect that really needs to have a huge change. it's not just the young generation knows it. i mean this is something that is embraced by all. luckily it is,

i think the young generation is going to lead it because we do need to make some sort of change for the generations coming and coming coming. and then luckily the older generations and politicians are doing it as well. it's happening to very well for a country like denmark. this is a small country, it's got a pretty high wealth per capita ratio. you can afford to introduce all of these policies and make them work very different for countries that can't afford it for the developing countries. of this world, what lessons does denmark have to offer them? i think what the danish government needs to do is to teach other governments how to make it easy for people in here. so making the green choice, the easiest choice is what is what i think is going to make the difference worldwide and try and export those policies in those ideas, making biking roads or standing on one. wonderful or patricia, thank you so much for your time. it's been great talking to you and here we are in the middle of a cycling rush hour in copenhagen. back to you now at cop 26 in glasgow.

janet great, thanks very much indeed for that. it's interesting stuff that from denmark, let's take all of us on we can speak now. here in claus. go to james cameron, part of friends of cop $26.00, which is part of the informal group advisory, the presidency. is time right now you've been lonely, involved in these, these climate change conferences, in fact, before they're even invented back in the eighty's. what do you make of what you've been hearing so far? and how was that? what ever since the french front loaded the power display in paris? that's what we're in now. we're in the display of political power. the 1st couple of days had to state and government making speeches. one off the other, you have to listen to the code, what they say to each other, and the peer group of power is interesting to a point. but they, they assemble that power up front to give the message very clearly to negotiate as to delegates. this is where we want you to end up. these are the mat crow. big

picture aims, is where the rhetoric leads us, but then they go and the delegates get together and they know they negotiate detail . some of it excruciating for hours and hours on end until they arrive at an agreement. oh, very close. and some times actually mostly in the end game, you need that power to come back. either physically back or on the end of a coal, to say we are going to agree to this or not so that it is important that you have this phase at the beginning where the worldly did say here is not just blah blah, blah. it's spread open book, whatever it is important to hear it said to give my men to become sprinklers are exactly right. it, that the, the politics matters. the peer group politics matters. the rhetoric matters in that context. ultimately, of course, what matters is the translation into decisions made in the real world, including the political well, i mean, politics to policy,

to law enforceable law that really does make a difference. and that is really what most of this is about. ultimately, all this talk has to be translated into things that bind, but a lot of that can also happen privately. we can self organized, we do, i mean, all the way around or people self organizing, business and investment and community action in all sorts of quite interesting coalitions. quite strange coalitions of interest that matters to. and that happens partly because of the rhetoric, but mostly because the event itself pulls in those various types of power. and we've been hearing a lot about that today. haven't we this, this need for, for private investment, for business to get involved in this because the money that we're talking about here, $100000000.00 a year. you know, it is controversial for sure, but it's, it's just a drop in the ation, isn't it? is it not a not negotiate that 100 bit in it is deeply symbolic. it carries some legacy of past responsibility. it's, it's a way of making some modest compensator,

a payment for those who are most affected and least able to solve their own problem . in the small and, and states who i worked with for years and years and years, they can't solve this problem for themselves. they have to get the will to obligate themselves to solve the problem for them. that's why this treaty process is so critical and money is necessary for that big money though. so a 100000000000 is important. symbolically important to leverage private money. but trillions are what we need and we need that to be a rational deployment. the risk and opportunity needs to be weighed out by investors. here you want to change the conkiness so that a pension fund in norway, or a, or a or a big investor asset manager in the u. s. makes a different decision next week about where the money goes, right? but we not, can we not likely to head those kind of announcements or the next fortnight, always you will, but you hear them just to the saw like noise is off. you know,

you, his am when investors gather and they deal with specific. so you want your start, i think you'll get some great announcements for example, on valuing nature in the next couple of days. look out for that. quite a large amount of is going to be corralled around. the effort required to properly value nature for the services it offers to what apartment of the output is intrinsic value. but you'll see it in sectors. you'll see it in transport. of course, you'll see it in energy where money developers innovators start to get closer together to change the rules of the game that really matters. and it matters in a board room next week. possibly more than fine rhetoric that we've just heard. right. james. fascinating, told you to great get an insight what's going on behind the scenes. it taught you later, no doubt. thanks very much. james cameron, well late is we'll continue speaking as president president back on francis speaking right now, and they will continue over the rest of the afternoon and then into tomorrow as well. for now, it's back to you. hello. okay, thank you very much indeed. and nick,

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look at this. coming out of the central part of asia. russia really took through cassock, stand this cold front, bring snow on to the weston, to bechtel platter. was a mountains 1st, then it brings it all the way down towards no last dentist and the temperatures behind will drop. but this is a hint of a change that could go a lot for the size. by the end of the week, reaching the gulf states maybe already showing showers in western iraq. however, we may leave it there for the south. tropical africa has seen the change in the wind direction on this east coast no longer the southwest monsoon driven on shore breeze, a few light showers. basically, the rain is further west, more or less from kenya, uganda through burundi. and rwanda to was, dia, congress is where the rain is concentrating. this is also correct for the season. and wrangler. of course, it is welcomed. that's as far south as come at the moment. beyond that, a try looking picture. ah,

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