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Green
Giants

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, is greeted by U.S. President Barack Obama after he delivered remarks during the COP21, United Nations Climate Change
Conference, in Le Bourget, outside Paris, on Monday, Nov. 30, 2015.

(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

World Leaders Vow To Save Earth From Overheating

KARL RITTER say to our grandchildren if bigger reductions would be oping countries like China countries to cut emissions,
SYLVIE CORBET we fail,” British Prime Min- needed to limit man-made and the U.S. never signed
Associated Press ister David Cameron said warming of the Earth to 2 and India that are now the on. Since then, global tem-
LE BOURGET, France (AP) — as the U.N. climate summit degrees Centigrade (3.8 peratures and sea levels
With dramatic vows to save opened under heavy secu- degrees Fahrenheit) over biggest and third-biggest have continued to rise, and
future generations from an rity on the outskirts of Paris, pre-industrial times, the in- the Earth has seen an ex-
overheated planet, the two weeks after the ex- ternationally agreed-upon emitters of greenhouse traordinary run of extreme
largest gathering ever of tremist attacks that left 130 goal. weather, including severe
world leaders began two people dead. “Instead of The biggest issue facing gases? droughts and storms.
weeks of talks Monday making excuses tomorrow, the 151 heads of state and This new round of talks seeks
aimed at producing the let’s take action today.” government at the summit “Addressing climate to produce an agreement
most far-reaching pact yet Even before the gather- is who should bear most of that would require all coun-
to reduce greenhouse-gas ing, more than 180 coun- the burden of closing that change should not deny tries, rich and poor, to take
emissions and avert envi- tries pledged to cut or curb gap: wealthy Western na- action.
ronmental havoc. their emissions, but scientif- tions that have polluted the the legitimate needs of
“We should ask what will we ic analyses show that much most historically, or devel- Continued on page 2
developing countries to re-

duce poverty and improve

living standards,” Chinese

leader Xi Jinping told the

conference.

The last major climate

agreement, the 1997 Kyoto

Protocol, required only rich