PARIS (AP) — The latest news related to the U.N. climate conference in Paris, which runs through Dec. 11. All times local:
11:30 a.m.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Gina McCarthy says Republicans and others fighting the Obama administration’s efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants are going to lose — and might as well get over it.
Despite a lawsuit and Congress voting to repeal to the regulation, McCarthy said Monday that state governments are already working to implement the complication plan. The president will reject Congress’ efforts and the EPA has a track record of winning these lawsuits and will win again, she said.
In an interview with The Associated Press in Paris, McCarthy said the clean power plan is “alive and well,” and adds that “it’s going to be the law of the land and it’s going to last.”
The plan is crucial to the U.S. effort to reduce heat-trapping emissions by up to 28 percent from 2005 levels within 10 years and is a key part of negotiations here.
McCarthy says the plan “provides a sound basis for us to talk to other countries about how you can grow the economy in ways that are shifting toward a low carbon future.”
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10:50 a.m.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon wants the world’s wealthiest economies to take the lead in addressing climate change, with poorer countries increasingly playing a role.
Ban spoke to government ministers from around the world as Paris climate talks entered their crucial second week Monday, aimed at a lasting pact to fight global warming.
He says: “Developed countries must agree to lead, and developing countries need to assume increasing responsibility in line with their capabilities.”
He argued for an agreement that includes strong monitoring of government pledges, and funds to help vulnerable countries. He described meeting a young girl in the island nation of Kiribati who asked “What will become of us? What can the United Nations do for us?”
Negotiators submitted a 48-page draft agreement Saturday that is full of competing options, leaving it to ministers to work out sticking points over what different countries will do and how much it will cost.
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8:55 a.m.
India’s environment minister is urging industrialized nations to take strong action and make sacrifices to fight climate change, as Paris climate talks enter a second, crucial week.
Prakash Javadekar said in a statement Sunday night that “India is here to ensure that rich countries pay back their debt for overdraft that they have drawn on the carbon space.”
In a statement released in New Delhi, Javadekar warned that while negotiators were midway through the two-week climate talks, “substance-wise we are not midway but sometimes at crossroads.”
He said India was “determined” to ensure these talks are not like past climate summits, “where we all returned home with false optimism and fictitious hopes.”
Government ministers take over the negotiations in Paris Monday after technical teams submitted a draft accord Saturday on tackling global warming over the long term.
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