– ‘Not moving fast enough’ –
“We are not moving fast enough,” Obama insisted, as he tries to build support for an international pact to curb warming.
In December, representatives from around the world will gather in Paris to agree to cap global temperature increases by two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial levels.
“This year, in Paris, must be the year that the world finally reaches an agreement to protect the one planet we’ve got while we still can,” Obama said.
Earlier, ministers from the United States, European nations, Japan, Singapore and South Korea issued a joint statement at the conference, vowing “strong determination” to reach an “ambitious outcome” at the December meeting.
While in Alaska, Obama will try to take his message to a broader audience by getting a “crash course in survival techniques” from insect-eating British adventurer Bear Grylls.
The footage will be used for an upcoming episode of “Running Wild With Bear Grylls.”
Grylls, a former special air service trooper, boasts that he pushes celebrities like New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees and Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet “beyond their limits.”
Tasks they have been given include eating mice, jumping out of planes and crossing desert canyons – activities that the Secret Service would not normally allow the president to tackle.
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