He also took a swipe at the Russian and Chinese governments, whose leaders have not attended the conference in Glasgow.
at the Cop26 summit on Monday, when accused his successor in the White House of ‘four years of active hostility towards climate science’.
It came as the former US President warned that under-threat island nations are the ‘canary in the coalmine’ on the climate crisis and urged world leaders to take far more radical action. He continued: ‘Some of our progress stalled when my successor decided to unilaterally pull out of the Paris Agreement in his first year in office.‘And yet, the determination of our state and local governments, along with the regulations and investment that my administration had already put in place, we were able to keep moving forward despite hostility from the White House.
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