World leader after world leader is standing at the U-N today and promising to spend billions of dollars to take better care of planet Earth.
They are responding to a challenge Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon to set a new course for a warming globe and reverse the rise of heat-trapping gases.
Prime Minister Harper is not attending today’s one-day summit that is designed to lay the groundwork for a new global treaty to tackle climate change in December 2015.
Countries that are usually in the background at the U-N have taken centre stage at the meeting meeting. The participation of the island nations is understandable, considering that they are the ones threatened with literal drowning in the face of rising sea levels.
Grenada’s Prime Minister Keith Mitchell says big steps need to be taken to reduce carbon emissions.
U-S President Barack Obama has told the U-N Climate Summit the world cannot condemn its children to a world beyond their capacity to repair.
He says the U-S will do its part to address global warming, and that now is the time for other nations around the world to answer the call.
Harper has been criticized for not attending today’s summit.