Obama: Climate agreement 'best chance we have' to save the planet

By John D. Sutter, Joshua Berlinger and Ralph Ellis, CNN

Mon, Dec 14, 2015

President Barack Obama praised a landmark climate change agreement approved Saturday in Paris, saying it could be "a turning point for the world."

"The Paris agreement establishes the enduring framework the world needs to solve the climate crisis," the President said, speaking from the White House. "It creates the mechanism, the architecture, for us to continually tackle this problem in an effective way."

He praised American leadership but noted that all participating nations will have to cooperate.

"I believe this moment can be a turning point for the world," Obama said, calling the agreement "the best chance we have to save the one planet that we've got."

Though the plan was hailed as a milestone in the battle to keep Earth hospitable to human life, critics say it is short on specifics, such as how the plan will be enforced or how improvements will be measured.

The accord achieved one major goal. It limits average global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial temperatures and strives for a limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) if possible.

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/12/world/global-climate-change-conference-vote/

5W1H:
WHO-President Barack Obama
What- praised climate change agreement
Where-White House
When- 2015/12/14
Why-It limits average global temperature
How- not given

Keywords:
1.hospitable (環境)宜人的