helen mountford there. let's move onto british politics.me minister has visited the north—east of england to thank voters in traditional labour heartlands for backing his party. borisjohnson met with supporters in newly conservative sedgefield, tony blair's former constituency. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, is coming under increasing pressure to resign with immediate effect after his party's worst election results since the 1930s. 0ur political correspondent iain watson reports. good morning. a prime minister is a familiar sight in these parts, though it's usually been a labour, not a conservative one. so, where betterfor borisjohnson to rub his opponent's nose in the election result than in tony blair's old stomping ground of sedgefield? i know that people may have been breaking the voting habits of generations to vote for us. and i want the people of the north—east to know that we in the conservative party and i will repay your trust. so, what issues will he have to focus on if he's to retain the trust of new supporters? i hope he doe

helen mountford of the world resources institute was at talks in madrid. are a number of issues and a critical point we have here is that the negotiators are not reflecting the negotiators are not reflecting the urgency of the science that we see, the science of climate change is more clear than ever that we need to act now and the calls from people on the street who asked for more action. the small world country, the vulnerable ones, the major emitters have largely been missing in action. china often says to the west, talking about big polluters, that you got rich, you have no right to stop developing countries from trying to get better lives for our people. how do you respond to that? the reality is that the trajectory we need to be on is zero missions by 2050 and we can only do that if all countries and all the world works together to do so. right now in a situation where everyone needs to ta ke situation where everyone needs to take action. in the paris agreement and convention there is an approach with common but differentiated responsibilities and th

>> reporter: a lot of pressure on coming next year's conference. >> absolutely. >> reporter: helen mountfordthank you very much for being here. thankou. >> r woodruff: wmakers, the focus right now is on the issues of government spending, trade, thd most of all, impeachment. but in pittsburg past weekend, many of the 2020 democrats were spotlig another issue: education. seven presidential hopeftcs made their s to teachers and advocates. here's a sample of what the candidatesaid: >> we're going tmake sure that every teacher is adequately paid, that means aleast $60,000 a year. >> if you had $10 to spend andat all you had to spend on education, i'd spend $7 of them onreschool. >> all charter schools should have to meet the same requirements as alpublic schools should meet. >> woodruff: this coming thursday should see the sevenad g candidates on stage together in los angeles for the next primary debate-- which is being hosted by the "newshour" along with "politico." but a labor dispute involving the debate site, loyola marymount university, has caused the candidates to balk. the dispute is betwe

helen mountford is the vice president for climate and economics at world resources institute. joins us from washington. helen, why is the deadlock? there is a number of issues, and i think reticle pa rt a number of issues, and i think reticle part we have here is that the negotiators are not yet reflecting the urgency of the science that we see. the science of climate change is more clear than ever that we need to act now, and the calls of people on the streets who are asking for more action. the negotiators are common, we have got some that are really taking that approach, particularly the smaller countries, the vulnerable ones, but the major emitters have largely been missing in action. china often says to the west, we talk about big polluters, china there. they say, you had your industrial revolution backin you had your industrial revolution back in the 19 century stopping you got rich, you have no right to stop us, the developing countries, to try to get the lives for our people. how do you respond to that? the reality is, the trajectory we need to be honest to go to net ze