Obama Urges World To 'Rise To The Moment' At Climate Summit

US President Barack Obama urged world leaders gathered for the UN climate conference in Paris to act now to secure a future for humanity.

The "future is one that we have the power to change right here right now, but only if we rise to this moment," Obama told 150 leaders at the summit.
Barack Obama, President of the United States. (Cihan/AFP)
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LE BOURGET, FRANCE. 30 NOVEMBER 2015
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SOUNDBITE 1 - Barack Obama, President of the United States (man, English, 19 sec):
"I've come here personally as leader of the world's largest economy and second largest emitter to say that the United States of America not only recognizes our role in creating this problem, we embrace our responsibility to do something about it."

SOUNDBITE 2 - Barack Obama, President of the United States (man, English, 18 sec):
"We have broken the old arguments for inaction. We have proved that strong economic growth and a safer environment no longer have to conflict with one another. They can work in concert with one another, and that should give us hope;"


SOUNDBITE 4 - Barack Obama, President of the United States (man, English, 13 sec):
"Our generation may not even live to see the full realization of what we do here but the knowledge that the next generation will be better off for what we do here, can we imagine a more worthy reward than that?

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