Former US president Barack Obama said young people had the “most important energy” in the climate change battle, in a rousing speech at the COP26 summit in Glasgow that earned him a standing ovation.
Speaking six years after his appearance at the Paris summit that forged agreement on keeping global warming to well below 2C since pre-industrial levels, Obama said the young were right to be frustrated at his generation’s failure to deal with the “potentially cataclysmic problem” they stood to inherit.
“Vote the issue. Vote like your life depends on it, because it does,” he said.
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