thank you very much and now for the latest from the united nations climate summit laugh. at the big topic is how to reduce carbon dioxide emissions while the united states has long been a one of the world's biggest emitters of greenhouse gases but an american city once known for its smoggy skies are showing that it's possible to cut pollution pittsburgh pennsylvania is undergoing a transfer mission as the w. carson phenomena found out. this is the old image of pittsburgh a city of steel and coal where the chimney stacks never stop bedsit smoke and west read lights had to be left on twenty four hours a day because the smog blocked out the sun but today's reality is a different one the city has cleaned up its act and instead of heavy industry banks and high tech companies are now providing jobs for a growing population more than thirteen thousand pittsburghers i employed in the clean energy sector alone in companies such as ever power which operates wind farms in pennsylvania and new york and is developing projects in other states too for co-founder and we're going to best

all week we have been reported reporting from the united nations climate summit in bonn the big topic on the agenda is how to cut carbon dioxide emissions the united states has long been one of the world's biggest emitters of greenhouse gases but a city once known for its smoggy skies shows that it's possible to cut pollution pittsburgh pennsylvania is undergoing a thorough transformation as our correspondent carson for not reports. this is the old image of pittsburgh a city of steel and coal where the chimney stacks never stop bad shit smoke and breast read lights had to be left on twenty four hours a day because the smoke blocked out the sun but today's reality is a different one the city has cleaned up its act and instead of heavy industry banks and high tech companies are now providing jobs for a growing population more than thirteen thousand pittsburghers are employed in the clean energy sector alone and companies such as evah power which operates wind farms in pennsylvania new york and is developing projects in other states too for co-founder and recall of best ski pittsburgh is

the united nations climate summit wraps up this friday. envoys from nearly 200 countries have been working on a rulebook. progress has been mixed as divisions have reemerged between rich and developing countries. there is some agreement when it comes to coal. tw20 different nations, estates, and five canadian provinces, all in agreement by 2030.sing out coal >> this alliance is about celebrating the benefits of what is possible and helping all of us achieve these week steps for the sake of the planet and generations to come. responsibility for greenhouse gases, it is a big step. however, some countries have not signed up. while still intending to pull out of climate change agreements in 2020, have some ideas about moving forward. >> we remain open to the possibility of rejoining at a later date under terms more favorable to the american people. irrespective of our views on the paris agreement, the united states continues to be a leader in clean energy and innovation. and we understand the need for transforming energy systems. >> specifical

now for the latest from the united nations climate summit. >> the big topic is how to reduce carbon dioxide emissions while the united states has long been one of the world emitters of greenhouse gases. an american city once known for its smoggy skies shows it's possible to cut pollution. pittsburgh. pennsylvania is undergoing a transformation. as dw found out. >> this is the old image of pittsburgh. a city of steel and coal, with the smokestacks don't stop them in smoke and the lights had to be left on 24 hours a day because the smoke blocked out the sun. today's reality is a different one. they cleaned up their act, instead of heavy industry, banks, and high-tech companies are proving jobs for a growing population. more than 13,000 pittsburghers are employed in the clean energy sector alone, companies such as ever power, which operates wind farms and is developing projects in other states. for co-founder, pittsburgh is the perfect place were innovative businesses. >> i think it's the people. it's a great town, young people from some of the best universities in the country. also, from a cu

all week you has been reporting from the united nations climate summit in bonn the big topic is how to reduce carbon dioxide dioxide emissions the united states has long been one of the world's biggest emitters of greenhouse gases but an american city once known for its smoggy skies is showing that it's possible to cut pollution but burke pennsylvania is undergoing a transformation as the w. corresponding carson phenomenon found out. this is the old image of pittsburgh a city of steel and coal where the chimney stacks never stop bedsit smoke and west read lights had to be left on twenty four hours a day because the smog blocked off the sun but today's reality is a different one the city has cleaned up its act and instead of heavy industry banks and high tech companies are now providing jobs for a growing population more than thirteen thousand pittsburghers are employed in the clean energy sector alone and companies such as ever power which operates wind farms in pennsylvania new york and is developing projects in other states too for co-founder and recalling best ski pittsburgh is the

today, german chancellor angela merkel is slated to address the united nations climate summit. this morning, activists had a special welcome for her. we are in the main plenary area of the u.n. climate summit. have just activists rolled out a red carpet. a little different than dignitaries are used to. it says on "keep it in the ground" with the finger-pointing down. we're joined now by two of the activists who rolled out that red carpet. can you tell me your name's? >> my name is joseph. >> my name is lucia. amy: can you tell me why you rolled out the carpet? >> today, a lot of politicians are going to be coming into this space. we wanted to especially welcome chancellor merkel. there's a lot of discussion in germany at the moment. we wanted to send the message that we need to keep coal in the ground. amy: can you talk about how climate change affects similar? >> in the pacific, with the sea levels rising, a lot of our low-lying countries are being affected. marshall islands is two meters above sea level. likely villages will because of the rising sea levels. amy: how does it a

amy: then at the united nations climate summit in bonn, germany, there will be several delegations from the u.s.. although president trump says he is pulling the u.s. out of the climate acaccord, the trtrump administration will be therere o push coal, gas, a nuclear power. a number of mayors and governors , sayingng wee in b bonnm are e still inin. >> we are still i in as governo, university presidentnt from ngo, and d others that are committedo meeting america's obligations under the paris agreement. amy: we will speak with 350.org founder bill mckibben about the future of the climate accord, the latest catastrophes, and we will talk to him about his new first novel, "radio free vermont: a fable of resistance." all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war anand peace report. i'm amy goodman. at least four women have accused roy moore, the republican nominee in alabama for a u.s. senate seat, of making sexual advances on them while they were teenagers, including one woman who says moore forced himself on her when she was 14 years old and he was 32.

politics out of the mix and take c o two emissions out is well that is the goal of the united nations climate change summit that is going on right now in the german city of basra tonight we'd like to look at india a country that is heavily reliant on coal the dirtiest of fossil fuels is the source for more than half of india's electricity production our india correspondent sonia fung the car visited the heart of the country's coal belt in east india now mining there has had a disastrous effect on the environment and also on the people who depend on it for their livelihood. some of the motto is seventeen years old. she scavengers in the coal mines of. the shift is just nine. to begin work at dawn a pretty it's fraught with danger. the cold has to be hacked out of exposed. once ship badly injured himself while working. open call it is one hundred fifty meters deep suffer three makes four to five trips each day. she has to watch out for the police who chase them away.

major united nations climate summit and germany is wrapping up after two weeks. more than twenty thousand delegates from across the world have attended this conference in on a fifteen nation coalition called power in past coal was announced as part of the summit led by the u.k. and canada member countries are planning to move towards cleaner sources of energy but without the u.s. and china on board some are questioning how effective it can be james norton is a president and founder of play action strategies a strategic consulting firm he's a former staffer at the u.s. department of homeland security he joins us from washington d.c. and thank you very much for joining us james so with the u.s. absence at this major international event is that a missed opportunity for the u.s. to leave even if there are people in the top ministration that have different views on on climate policy is this still not a missed opportunity you know i think it's important to remember that you know president trump was pretty clear during the campaign and certainly in his early days in his

all week we have been reporting from the united nations climate change summit which is taking place in the german city of bonn the big topic on the agenda is what do you think carbon dioxide emissions wild why we know that the biggest polluters overall are the united states and china but how do the fig. stack up when we look at c o two emissions related to population check this out australia tops the list it belches out more than eighteen tons of c o two per capita the united states in second place with sixteen point one tons and it is closely followed by saudi arabia with sixteen tons of c o two per capita it's clear that the u.s. has a key role to play in reducing global c o two emissions but earlier this year u.s. president donald trump caused a stir when he announced that his nation would pull out of the paris climate accord here's one i was elected to represent. the citizens of pittsburgh not paris. those words did not go down well in pittsburgh itself not only because the city voted overwhelmingly against trump but also because it has worked hard to overcome its image as a decayi

has been reporting from the united nations climate change summit in the german city of bam the big topic on the agenda is reducing world wide c o two emissions and opinions on how best to achieve this are as you'd imagine split environmentalist say coal is the single greatest threat to our climate and should be phased out as quickly as possible data shows that coal burning produces more carbon dioxide than any other human source but the coal industry says the fuel can be compatible with climate action by using carbon capture and storage technology which captures c o two produced by coal burning and stores it underground so it doesn't enter the atmosphere. and benjamin sports on such executive of the world coal association which backs carbon capture technology welcome to day w. the theory seems fine burn coal capture the carbon keep it away from the atmosphere but what happens when the current carbon storage systems go wrong. well carbon capture and storage is an incredibly important technology and it's being recognized by groups like the international energy agency the intergovernmental

united nations climate change summit has wrapped up in germany with an agreement to reassess the statusof the world's fuel emissions levels next year or than twenty thousand delegates from across the world attended the top twenty three in the city of bonn national representatives from every nation except the us agreed to the two thousand and eighteen assessment date of fifteen nation coalition was also announced as part of the summit those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after talk to al-jazeera keep it or. you.

summit in the money attended by the two leaders as. over the past week we've been reporting from the united nations climate change summit which is underway in the german city of bonn among the biggest issues on the agenda is reducing c o two emissions worldwide today we'll be taking a look at india a country still heavily reliant on coal the dirtiest of fossil fuels is a source of more than half of india's electricity production correspondence on your follicle visited the heart of the country's call belt an area called ceria in eastern india mining here has had a disastrous impact on the environment as well as the people. three mother who is seventeen years old. she scavengers in the coal mines of cerium . the ship is just nine. to begin work at dawn every day it's fraught with dangers. the cold has to be hacked out of exposed. once should come our badly injured himself while working. the open call pit is one hundred fifty meters deep south of three makes four to five crips each day. she has to watch out for the police who trace them away and confiscate the code. where. i don't have a choice i have to do this work my parents are illitera

now over the past week we've been reporting from the united nations climate change summit currently underwayin the german city of boston now the big topic on the agenda is reducing carbon dioxide emissions worldwide that in a bid to curb the rise in global temperatures now one of the most visible signs of global warming is the melting of the of the polar ice caps ice caps and glaciers cover seven percent of the earth's surface now that's more than europe and north america combined but this animation from nasa shows the gradual reduction in the ice coverage near the north pole based on satellite observations nasa says the arctic ice cap is declining at an average rate of about thirteen percent per decade our next report takes us to the norwegian archipelago of a small bard in the arctic circle scientists there are researching just what is causing the ice to retreat. the small part archipelago is covered with ice snow and glaciers as far as the eye can see at first glance there's no obvious sign of the drastic climatic changes taking place here. but the arctic is warming two to three times fas

well over the past week we've been reporting from the united nations climate change summit currently under way in the german city of boston now the big topic on the agenda there is reducing c o two emissions worldwide today we'll be looking at india a nation heavily reliant on coal the dirtiest of also fuels as a source of more than half of india's electricity production our india correspondence on your phone the car visited the heart of india's coal belt that's in the east of the country now mining here has been disastrous for the environment and also for the people who depend on it for their livelihoods. somebody's mother who is seventeen years old. she scavengers in the coal mines of tidy up. her brother ship is just nine. to begin work at dawn a pretty it's fraught with dangers. the corn has to be hacked out of exposed scenes. once ship them are badly injured himself while working. in the open cold pit is one hundred fifty meters deep. suffer three makes four to five trips each day. just watch out for the police to trace them away and confiscate the cult. tries name i don't have

the united nations climate change summit in the german city of bonn the big topic on the agenda there is reducing carbon dioxide emissions worldwide but figures released by researchers on monday show a two percent increase in global c o two emissions the biggest offender china that country's use of coal oil and natural gas all rising last year by three percent five percent and twelve percent respectively now that's the spike china's rise to become the biggest producer of a new a boy energy in the world. the dream of a small free world is taking shape. over a thousand kilometers from beijing in northwestern china the largest solar array in the world is going up ning charts a small autonomous region with six million inhabitants plenty of sunshine vast open spaces and the ambition to become a world leader in the field of solar energy. john tran is convinced his country is on the right path the engineer was proud to be one of those selected to get the project up and running. removable energies or a historical opportunity we can cut core consumption by eight hundred thousand tons per year

see the united nations framework convention for climate change which organizes these climate summits patricia espinosa and she told me i also is there any sign of other countries using the u.s. as an excuse to slide back and she told me not yet because of a spring date thank you you're welcome. to fiji is particularly vulnerable to climate change to doubly correspondent bhasin hasek has said this report on how the country is dealing with rising sea levels. when in recall goes out fishing this has become a familiar sight. emptiness. you're used to. when i was small i usually went out to sea with my grandfather and father but we didn't have to come as far out as we are now we would only go as far as the closest reefs get a good catch and then go back now it's different we have to go from one reef to the next because there's nothing there the sea is getting warmer well we did that was a. lesson to me. the changing climate is also taking its toll on. enrico's village. the sea level is rising and. is slowly being swallowed by the ocean. the salt water makes the soil and fertile leaving be

the next major united nations climate change conference opens tomorrow in bonn, germany. known as the cop-23 summit, and presided over by fiji, the gathering is meant to finalize rules for implementing the voluntary 2015 paris climate accord agreed to by every nation except the united states and syria. in a coal-mining district an hour outside bonn today, 2,000 demonstrators marched, calling for germany to wean itself faster off coal, a major source of co2 emissions. the delegation being sent by the trump administration to the climate change conference includes industry representatives who promote the continued use of coal, along with nuclear power, and liquified natural gas. a powerful typhoon has battered the central and southern coast of vietnam. typhoon damrey has killed 27 people and damaged 40,000 homes since making landfall yesterday. residents and tourists in the unesco heritage town of hoi an waded through streets filled with five feet of water. heavy rainfall is expected to continue through tuesday, in an area only 50 miles from the asian economic summit which presidents trump and putin w

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summit. well terry what struck me from the speech from patricia espinosa the executive secretary of the united nations framework convention on climate change who's just been speaking is one simple sentence we no longer have the luxury of time we must act now and from the previous speech the prime minister of fiji frank bainimarama he was saying you know we are setting ourselves a serious charge that he seems to be emphasising the target of a rise of capping the rise in temperature of global temperatures to one point five degrees above pre-industrial levels instead of two degrees so going for the more ambitious target in his speech calling that a serious target he also said that the fijian presidency hopes to infuse these negotiations with what he called the talon know a spirit of understanding and respect. a pacific island tradition of storytelling and and dialogue with you to reaching a good decision let me just bring in comfort of climate analytics very briefly with a question on fiji the fijian presidency they despite that talent show a. spirit of respect and understanding and going to put something called loss and damage on the

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see the united nations framework convention for climate change which organizes these climate summits patricio espinosa and she told me i asked her is there any sign of other countries using the u.s. as an excuse to slide back and she told me not yet because of a spring date thank you you're welcome oh yeah defeat is particularly vulnerable to climate change to w a correspondent bassil hartig has sent this report on how it is dealing with rising sea levels. when in recall goes out fishing this has become a familiar sight. emptiness. you're used to. when i was small i usually went out to sea with my grandfather and father but we didn't have to come as far out as we are now we would only go as far as the closest reefs get a good catch and then go back now it's different we have to go from one reef to the next because there's nothing there the sea is getting warmer well we did that was a. lesson to me. here in the shallows off the coast of a newer level fiji's second biggest island life is slowly dying the rising temperature of the ocean is killing the coral reefs and with them all the f

summit looking specifically at climate finance the paris agreement rolls on. al-jazeera ball in germany. all right let's speak to erik solheim now who's executive director of the united nations environment program you net and he's going to talk to us live now from nairobi via skype thank you for talking just now bone had the task really of translating that conceptual success of paris into a practical playbook if you like for how to move forward and it seems to have succeeded actually i think it was very interesting i mean everything else this was the first convention of the part. of the president from the united states out of the convention or. of the nation two hundred of the nations this. from the united states private sector companies like microsoft very important promises china in their eyes not basically in the lead on the. revolution going. into solar and being. very core united kingdom come about no instructor. called so there was the really interesting results well that is the fundamental issue isn't it basically the developing world. up against the developed world those who have done the most polluting and those who are feeling the effects of it that is the chasm th

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