The Virtual Press briefing is an hour. The springto meetings 2020 Virtual Press bankrence with world president david malpass. President malpass will give weef opening remarks and will turn to your questions. Thank you to all the reporters from around the world who have been submitting questions. We may have to group some of to get through as many as we can and we may edit for brevitys sake. You send in questions, please submit only one per outlet. With that, president malpass, over to you. Malpass thank you and good morning to everyone. Im happy to speak to all of you. Wish the circumstances were not as grim. I would start by saying i hope you and your families are healthy and coping in these challenging times. To express my deepest condolences to the millions of around the world suffering from covid19 and who one to the loved pandemic. I just concluded a very virtual dialogue, low ouron virtual dialogue with Development Committee. I was joined by managing the i. M. F. And it was good
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A status u. S. From the state house. At the beginning of a speech members of a group called distinction rebellion began a protest of a Climate Change, causing the legislative session to go into recess. So police could remove the protesters. , mister president , madam speaker, chief justice, members of the General Assembly, honored guests and fellow vermont people, today i welcome the opening of the legislative session, with the same optimism i had as a freshman senator from washington, nearly two decades ago. I come before you to report on the state of the state, the reflection on the work weve done, a share of asian and priorities for a future. And elected, officials is our duty to distinguish what must be done, from what we might like to do,. To work together, polling in the same direction, and make a difference for those we serve. We meet at a time in our nations history were too many elected officials on both sides, are choosing confrontation and partisan politics, over collaborati
China as a whiz kids coding the future. Welcome to the program its good to have a rip us. Still being vented at the failure of last months un Climate Summit in madrid the signs of Climate Change keep accumulating relentlessly in the himalayas the changes have been rapid and alarming the worlds highest Mountain Range is starving for snow and the rate of the treat of ice is a real Climate Emergency factor into that the 1000000000 people downstream who depend on him molly and snowmen for water did up the reports from the ground. Indias pindar glacier. One of many in the himalayas losing snow mass at an alarming right. Swami demand on a hindu yogi has lived here for most of his life. Hes seen 1st hand the impact of Global Warming. Not hermeticum say should be 10 feet of snow here in november but theres not even a foot right now it wants no for months maybe at the end of december or in mid january. Over the past 40 years the pindar a glacier has retreated more than 2 and a half kilometers.
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