{"id":6004,"date":"2015-11-30T14:06:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T21:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=6004"},"modified":"2016-01-13T22:44:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T05:44:48","slug":"president-obamas-opening-statement-at-cop21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=6004","title":{"rendered":"President Obama’s opening statement at COP21"},"content":{"rendered":"
November 30, 2015, Paris<\/p>\n
The 21st Conference of the Parties, COP21, officially opened today in Paris. President Obama was one of\u00c2\u00a0many world leaders\u00c2\u00a0who\u00c2\u00a0spoke at the aptly titled \u00c2\u00a0“Leaders Event”.<\/p>\n
Obama’s presence\u00c2\u00a0on the opening day of these climate negotiations stood in stark contrast to his last minute appearance years earlier in the COP15 talks in Copenhagen, \u00c2\u00a0where closed door meetings were followed by an all night general session which strained\u00c2\u00a0the consensus process and resulted in the contentious\u00c2\u00a0Copenhagen Accord.<\/a><\/p>\n