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Significantly improved the prospects of american workers to have good jobs and good pay and dealt with the crisis that was caused by covid. we have done all of those. we continue to do them and will see what will happen. im not running because of the polls. next question from jeff mason at reuters. >> a question on climate and energy. can the world and others be confident that you will be able to follow or do -- make good on the promises on climate change that you have made at glascow without a ...

Our agenda. >> i understand that, but does it -- >> in terms of glasgow, yes. >> -- where everybody has to agree to bring the crisis down. >> it is. it is, and i think its ultimately going to be up to china as now currently the worlds largest emitter to decide whether it is going to do the right and important thing for its own people, but also for everyone around the world, because youre right. unless were all in this together in taking the steps necessary to keep warming to 1.5 degrees celsius,...

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The principal objective of world leaders, prominent scientists, and advisers over the next 12 days will be to secure global commitments to reduce carbon emissions and avoid a climate catastrophe. already today, theres been a taste of the problems ahead. the worlds richest nations the g20 met in rome, where leaders were accused of failing to make the commitments needed. the british prime minister boris johnson admitted the pledges were "too vague" and "not enough". the united nations secretary ge...

Commitments, and he talked about saudi arabia in that respect. he referring to? the widely held belief here that while italy and quite possibly the us were pushing botnet zero carbon emissions to be reached in the year 2030 —— for net zero, that has not come into the final communiqu , because of opposition from the big emitters, including russia, china, saudi arabia, added their veering towards 2060, that will disappoint a lot of climb actaviss 2—mac, western leaders, quite possiblyjoe a c...

Spray with an oval office the ability to sit down with the president and get him to expound on a number of issues is something that the reporters have been looking forward to. yes, you are hearing bells. every minutes you heard church bells and plus/minus for me, nic in, terms of the strongest ground for the american president and in this press conference and where his flank is a little exposed. i might say in reference to bells for whom the bells toll. >> oh, strong, strong. >> out of this conf...

Say weve succeeded. what have we succeeded in? we have certainly placed considerable resources. we also care many of these commitments, we increased our strength, their scope. but mostly, we made sure that our dreams as the secretary general of the united nations, are not only alive but they are progressing. now, as mark said, we must focus on implementation, implementation because rest assured, we will be judged by what we do, not what we say. judged by what we do, not what we sa , ., ., , , , ...

Dont think people doubt the uks commitments on foreign aid. on fossilfuels in motor vehicles and taxes, what the uk is actually doing is giving way out ahead of the pack in getting rid of hydrocarbon internal combustion engine vehicles by 2030, and we set the pace for that, we were ahead of the rest of the eu, that is the really important thing. and i think also when it comes to the credibility of the uk people can see what we have done, cut co2 emissions by almost half. and our economy grew by ...

In 2050 is that its quite a long way away. if you want to keep 1.5 within reach, you need to see real change in the next decade, by 2030. and at the moment again, looking at all the pledges that have been made, its a lot lower thanjustice but years ago. for example, around 130 countries have now got legally defined targets ticketed net—zero or are actively looking at ways to get to net—zero by around the middle of the century. just a couple of years ago, no more than 20 countries, so you can...

The ground — discussion at the 620, is action on the ground necessary to fulfil those commitments. we sometimes call this the implementation gap, the gaps that are _ the implementation gap, the gaps that are between the word that policymakers are using and the actions — policymakers are using and the actions in _ policymakers are using and the actions. in the case of the us, uk and eu, _ actions. in the case of the us, uk and eu, we — actions. in the case of the us, uk and eu, we are still...