Former President of the United States Barack Obama at #COP26 (Full Speech)

Remarks by Former President of the United States Barack Obama at COP26.This UN High-Level Climate Champions Event 'Destination 2030', convened in partnership with the COP26 Presidency, will take a stocktake of what has been achieved at COP26 to date and explore what’s necessary, what’s possible and what’s already underway to keep 1.5 alive.UN Climate Change on Twitter: twitter.com/UNFCCCUN Climate Change on Instagram: instagram.com/UNclimatechangeUN Climate Change on Facebook: facebook.com/UNclimatechangeWatch more on the COP26 Channel: YouTube.com/COP26The UN Climate Change Conference (COP 26) in Glasgow, United Kingdom is a crucial opportunity to achieve pivotal, transformational change in global climate policy and action. It is a credibility test for global efforts to address climate change and it is where Parties must make considerable progress to reach consensus on issues they have been discussing for several years. COP 26 comes against the background of widespread, rapid and intensifying climate change impacts, which are already impacting every region on Earth. Also, COP 26 comes against the background of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the urgent need to build back better for present future generations to ensure a safe future.The UNFCCC secretariat (UN Climate Change) is the United Nations entity tasked with supporting the global response to the threat of climate change. UNFCCC stands for United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Convention has near universal membership (197 Parties) and is the parent treaty of the 2015 Paris Agreement. The main aim of the Paris Agreement is to keep the global average temperature rise this century as close as possible to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The UNFCCC is also the parent treaty of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. The ultimate objective of all three agreements under the UNFCCC is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that will prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system, in a time frame which allows ecosystems to adapt naturally and enables sustainable development.#COP26 #UNClimateChange #BarackObama