Glasgow: At the age of 19, Glasgow Students Glasgow Ross Hamilton did not eliminate world leaders – “they chat a lot” nonsense – or expect them to achieve anything with the problems he care about, climate change.
But there was a former world leader of Hamilton Trust, at least enough to join several hundred student students gathered outside their college on a dark Monday with a glimpse of him: Barack Obama.
“I always like it.
I feel as if he is quite honest.” The former US president, one of the leaders responsible for 2015 Paris Climate Accept, came to the UN global climate talks in Glasgow, holding a cross-generation appeal to urge climate activists who are frustrated to survive.
Even five years outside the office, and now 60, Obama still claims relations with liberal and moderate young people in the way that President Joe Biden, 78, might not be able to do.
Inside the glass-frequency glass building where Hamilton and other students from the University of Strathclyde Glasgow were waiting for him, Obama sat around the table with a dozen climate advocates from all over the world, hearing them and encouraging them.
Obama is on a t-shirt and tieless, his hair is whiter than during his presidency.
“The success of the movement should not be reduced even if some results” have fallen shortly, Obama told the meeting of those who focused on the climate of their 20s and 30s.
They include a member of parliament, filmmakers, legal advocates, private and public businessmen, leaders of the Foundation and the Head of Activist Group.
“The question is, where countries really meet our expectations? And it turns out they are places where there is pressure, where there is a political mobilization, where there is activist,” Obama said.
That’s all “will depend on you to apply it,” he added.
Obama as president introduced a program to move more than renewable fuel and far from coal, even though President Donald Trump revealed behind them.
Not all younger people are Obama fans.
Uganda Vanessa Nakated Climate Activist Tweeted on Monday that he was 13 years old when the United States, under Obama’s leadership, was among rich countries that promised $ 100 billion a year to poor countries to help them fight and overcome satisfied, but said the nations violated the appointment.
Nakate told the Associated Press on Monday that he did not attack the former president, “but it was my truth.” “This money is promised, but hasn’t been conveyed,” said Nakate.
Especially in Europe, young activists are credited by pressing the government to deal with climate change.
The most famous, Teen Thunberg Greta in 2018 launched a climate movement which has since taken hundreds of thousands to weekly protests to demand the government end their dependence on coal, natural gas and oil.
After the Paris agreement, Glasgow was billed as a talk where approximately 200 the government would conduct a trial.
Last Friday, Thunberg, now 18, the brand talks “failure” after their first two weeks.
Speaking to tens of thousands of young climate demonstrators who protested Friday in host cities Summons, Thunberg said the national delegation in Glasgow carve a gap for each promise and “greenwashing” of their own country’s emissions.
Young people find it difficult to believe in climate movements that have mobilized so many who can fail, Luisa Neubauer, a leader of the Thunberg movement in Germany, told Obama.
Neubauer told Obama that he was afraid of disappointment that damaged the faith of people in democracy, “as people, especially activists, loss of trust in their government promises, in what often turns empty promises, due to lack of honesty.” Still, Obama told climate activists.
“Don’t think that you can ignore politics,” Obama said earlier, in a speech on the conversation site who saw the former president drawing a short standing ovasi.
“You don’t have to be happy about that, but you can’t ignore it.
You can’t be too pure for it,” Obama said, devoting a lot of his speeches to the young activists he said he came to Glasgow to be with it.
“That’s part of the process.
Will free us all, “he said.