MOSCOW, September 23 (RIA Novosti) – US President Barack Obama is going to address the issue of climate change at the United Nations climate summit in New York on Tuesday.
"The president will announce a suite of planned tools that will harness the unique scientific and technological capabilities of the United States to help vulnerable populations around the world strengthen their climate resilience," White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told journalists on Monday.
The climate summit will be a one-day event and will be hosted by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The summit is open to all UN member states but not all will attend.
According to Earnest, the US president "will call on other leaders to work towards a strong global framework to cut emissions."
The Obama administration made the last notable step towards combating climate change in June 2013, when the carbon pollution plan was announced, according to which the US Environmental Protection Agency established emission standards on coal plants in the country.
In June 2014, the agency proposed a plan to reduce carbon emissions by 30 percent by 2030.
On Monday, New York police arrested 102 climate protesters at the Flood Wall Street demonstration. It gathered about 3,000 participants, taking place Monday night. The protesters blocked Wall Street and Broadway, as according to them, the companies located on those streets sponsor the businesses and activities that contribute greatly to climate change.
Attitudes toward climate change greatly differs between Democrats and Republicans as according to a Pew Research Center August poll, almost 70 percent of Democrats viewed the issue as a major threat and only a quarter of Republicans felt the same.
