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Investments, clean energy incentives. and he has been telling world leaders this is a framework that shows that the united states is really back a as a leader on climate change and trying to set an example for the global community about what the richer countries can do anyway to pour money into investments to have a chance at capping global warming to this 1.5 degree threshold and kind of, you know, eliminating dirty fossil fuels from the picture here. but the president is tamping down expectati...

Climate scientist peter kalmus. we have already had a taste of the problems that lie ahead as well. the worlds richest nations, the g20, have been gathering in rome and the leaders there were accused of failing to make the commitments needed. the british prime minister borisjohnson admitted the pledges there were too vague and not enough. the un secretary general said the time for diplomatic niceties was over. he called the glasgow summit "the last hope". 0ur political editor laura kuenssberg re...

Voters and many republican voters seeing the effects of climate change domestically. if you think its bad here in terms of subways and infrastructure, and drought, and farming and wildfire, everything we know is hurting american es here at home, imagine if you started with way less, which is how most of the developing world is living now as these climate shocks are hitting more and more. >> i know youre dealing with that, but as you know, president biden admitted that both china and russia, quot...

Commitments and pledges are credible and ambitious which as you touched on are net zero carbon containing global average energy to 1.5 degrees or theyre not. at the moment theyre not even close. were currently on track to hit something close to 3 degrees by the end of the century which would result in a very different world. a pretty gloomy host. boris johnson has been talking recently about how there is no excuse for failure because by this point we know what is at stake and we know what needs ...

With world leaders soon to arrive, all eyes will be on whether cop26 will succeed. rebecca morelle, bbc news, glasgow. earlier i spoke to peter kalmus, whos worked as a climate scientist at nasasjet propulsion laboratory and associate project scientist uclas joint institute for regional earth systems science and engineering. what chance of it being much cop? this is the 26th conference and i think we have had a real wake—up call this summer, so this is a little bit different than the previous ...

Here. the president is prepared to sign. hes optimistic that will happen this week but this is a make or break moment right now. we heard from boris johnson saying that we are at one minute to mid might on the doomsday machine that is climate change saying that he hopes that this is the moment that the world leaders, about 120 leaders will be gathering here and the presidents own cabinet to demonstrate the show of force and the president is hopeful to use this to ramp up the pressure on the coun...

There has to be action and plenty of it to minimise the impact of climate change. this is very, very urgent, notjust for our country, for the whole world. if i had to give a comparison i would say its a one minute to midnight moment and the clock is ticking. we have to get everybody to do more. and they need to make further commitments, they need to make further commitments on how were going to move away from coal, fossilfuel burning, how were going to move away from using hydrocarbon cars, how ...

And theres a reason why people should be dispointed in that. i found it disappointed myself. >> reporter: now, wolf, this is the biggest test for his climate envoy, former secretary of state. and his team is also down playing expectations ahead of the summit, messaging it more as the beginning of a long process than as the culmination of kerrys efforts over the last eight or nine months. he is traveling the world trying to get commitments from foreign countries that are the biggest emitters. rus...

Meteorological association says climate change propelled earth into "uncharted territory." new data shows the past seven years are on track to be the warmest on record while this year alone the global sea left rise accelerated to a new high happening before our eyes. ahead of the summit the white house announced a plan to get the u.s. to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 202050. kaitlan collins is following all of us this edinburgh. president bide listen speak shortly. i wonder reality check ...

World will be here in scotland for whats been dubbed as the best last chance to tackle climate change. be president joe biden as you mentioned will touch down here after arriving from rome. he will arrive later this morning. and before the opening session, hell meet with british prime minister boris johnson and u.n.s secretary general. among those not in attendance are some major world powers including russia and china. >> the disappointment he relates to the fact that russia and including not o...