Its just gotten under way. The issue of Climate Change has been with us for decades. Esi stated all the way back in 1988 that addressing Climate Change is imperative. And experts have been working on the issue and proposing solutions all the while. Instead of just more frequent storms, i hope what were seeing and feeling is momentum to act on these solutions. I think there is some evidence that this is the case. Last week i testified before the Senate Energy committee and the need to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions was front and center. That probably would not have been the case a few years ago. Again, not something around a few years ago. At esi, we know and our panelists know that inaction on Climate Change is making the solutions we need to limit Global Warming harder and harder to achieve. We have to act now and we need to contribute to the momentum to act and reinforce it constantly reinforce it and this is where esi comes in, to inform policymakers and share Lessons Learned to he
Speaker his excellency president of the peoples republic of china iso delighted you could join us here and davos with the invitation night issued over one year ago. President xi a warm welcome to you and your highlevel delegation to your first davos visit even if the temperatures outside are freezing by your presence as a special significance and as the First Chinese president to address the Civil Society leaders to come on as an important moment in time so to make impressive achievements to of the industrys to reform and open up. Under your leadership there is an ever increasing of Global Affairs from Climate Change and i would like to congratulate you to be marked by great uncertainty into continue the responsible leadership with confidence and stability. Thank you for your countries continuous support of civil reform. Ladies and gentlemen, his excellency xi jinping the president of the peoples republic of china. [applause] translator for the state and the government at bbn your spon
The peninsula to ukraine. There is a clear path to restoring peace in eastern ukraine. A full and immediate implementation of the agreements which the United States continues to support. The mensk agreements. The un ambassador to the United Nations, sounding just as an ambassador traditionally does. Now, its confusing to mr trumps opponents, he is destabilising. I suspect that for his supporters, there is craft in the chaos the new president is unpredictable and going to have everyone yielding to him. Heres our diplomatic editor, mark urban. The National Prayer breakfast is a washington institution. A chance for politicians, movers and shakers to commune with the almighty. A chance also for President Trump to exhort them to keep the faith. When you hear about the tough phone calls im having, dont worry about it. Just dont worry. They are tough, we have to be tough, its time we have to be a little tough, folks, we are taken advantage of by every nation in the world, virtually. It is not
Long term . I can remember arriving in rio to see the saudi text with the entire text of the Framework Convention in brackets. And i know that theres still a concern that russia has been difficult to deal with on this issue for many years. But i dont want to answer the question. What is the where are the big challenges, do you think . Yeah, well so, theres two different ways to anxious that question. If you mean in the context of the Ongoing International negotiations thats kind of the i guess i mean both, the negotiations and the real world on the ground. Okay. So, with respect to negotiations, the short answer is i dont think we know yet. I think that there i mean, going into these negotiations there were various groupings of countries who were at least from our point of view and from the point of view of any number of countries who were seeking a certain kind of agreement were challenging. But we have an agreement that was met with kind of extraordinarily broad claim. I mean, even i
Way. Whereas the house of representatives may have about 40 or 50 members that are predominantly Food Production represents Food Production districts. Every United States senator represents at least some Food Production. That includes from the smallest states of rhode island and delaware to, of course, the largest states. And historically, those interests were dominated from people by the midwest and the heartland states. So illinois, indiana, missouri, my own state of kansas. And the midwest, up through the dakotas. And states in the south where you had members of congress and especially members of the United States who were elected forever. They accumulated great amounts of power, and they were able to influence the political process rather significantly so the states of mississippi, which was one state that had accumulated a large amount of power over the years. But all of the southern states, georgia, south carolina, north carolina, called the southern crops had very, very powerful