Former President Barack Obama of the United States made a speech at the UN conference on climate change countermeasures "COP26" held in the United Kingdom, criticizing China and Russia who did not attend the conference as "lacking a sense of crisis" Did.
Former President Barack Obama of the United States made a speech at COP26 in Glasgow, England on the 8th.
Obama said, "I cannot help but be disappointed that the leaders of China and Russia, the world's largest greenhouse gas emitters, refused to attend COP26. The government's sense of crisis over climate change. It's a shame that it reflects the lack and the willingness to maintain the status quo. " I called for work.
Regarding climate change countermeasures in the United States, "My successor withdrew from the international framework for global warming countermeasures, the Paris Agreement, and progress was stagnant. However, President Byden returned to the Paris Agreement. With that, the United States is ready to take leadership again, "he stressed as having great responsibility as the world's second-largest greenhouse gas emitter.
He also said to the younger generation that "the most important energy in the global movement comes from young people," and encouraged efforts to strengthen climate change countermeasures through demonstrations and other means.