Obama Touts ‘Partial’ Progress At Glasgow, Presses For More On Climate

November 8, 2021
Former President Barack Obama, attending his first international climate summit in Glasgow since he helped forge the Paris Agreement in 2015, touted “hard-won commitments” at this year’s event but acknowledged such progress is “partial” and that many countries must raise their ambition to reduce climate-warming emissions. “Most nations have failed to be as ambitious as they need to be,” he said during a Nov. 8 speech at the Glasgow meeting. “The escalation, the ratcheting up of ambition that we anticipated...


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