Former US president tells COP26 climate summit that not nearly enough is being done to address crisis
Former US President Barack Obama delivers a speech at the COP26 gathering in Glasgow, Scotland, on November 8 2021. Picture: GETTY IMAGES/CHRISTOPHER FURLONG
Obama’s presence comes as part of a show of force by US officials, including cabinet secretaries and dozens of legislators, who are fanning across the conference to argue that the country never stopped fighting climate change, even as former president Donald Trump pulled the US out of the Paris Agreement and dismantled regulations critical to achieving promised emissions cuts. “I wasn’t real happy about that,” Obama said.
Obama, who spent much of his childhood in Honolulu, began his day in a session on island resilience, sitting alongside representatives from Fiji, Grenada and the Marshall Islands — nations particularly vulnerable to encroaching seas.
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