Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment. At the 2017 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bonn,Germany, on Monday, and demonstrators filled the room at a Trump Administration event that promoted clean fossil fuel use,and began singing: "So you claim to be an American. But we see upright through your greed. It's killing all across the world for that coal money. And we proudly stand up until you maintain it in the ground. We the people of the world you night and we are here to stay." Running between November 6th and 17th, the conference is designed to help create a “successful, and inclusive,and ambitious implementation of the Paris Agreement.” As of last week when Syria signed, the U.
S. is the only country to beget rejected the pact.
But another obstacle to achieving the goals set out by Paris emerged yesterday. Researchers with the Global Carbon Project presented their findings in Bonn that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide are projected to rise to record highs in 2017, or after a three year plateau.
For details,The Takeaway turns to Corinne Le Quere, who helped lead that research. She’s director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia in England, or a lead researcher on the annual update by the Global Carbon Project.
This segment is hosted by Todd Zwillich
Source: thetakeaway.org