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leaders from around the world have
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gathered in Baku azan's Capital as cop
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29 kicked off this week the focus this
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year is on how to get cash to poorer
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countries to help them fight against
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climate change but many big names and
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powerful countries haven't shown Fai at
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this year's conference UK prime minister
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Cirus stama is one of the only premieres
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from the wealthiest Nations attending
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although the Taliban has sent a
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representative outgoing US President Joe
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Biden German Chancellor Olaf schz and
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India's Narendra Modi are all not in
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attendance senior figures from the EU
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and China are also absent the only other
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G7 leader taking part in the Summit is
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Italy's Georgia Maloney however United
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Nations officials downplayed the lack of
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star power saying every country is
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represented and active in climate talks
0:52
UK prime minister cir took to the stage
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today saying he will not be telling
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people how to live their lives as part
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of plans to reach the UK's new emissions
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reduction Target he set the UK's
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emissions goal pledging to reduce them
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by 81% compared with 1990 Levels by 2035
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a goal in line with the recommendation
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of the climate change committee the
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Prime Minister was asked ahead of his
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speech whether he was prepared to get
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more people to change their heating
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systems and tell them to take fewer
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flights and eat less meet to reach that
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Target the Prime Minister told
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broadcasters in Baku that the goal he
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set out is ambitious but that it's
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measured not by telling people what to
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do but by making sure that we get to
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clean Power by the end of 20130 adding
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that clean power is the single most
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important Target on the way to the
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emissions he said while it's a difficult
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Target it is achievable but it's not
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about telling people how to live their
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lives starma also announced a 1 billion
1:54
pound contract for wind turbine blades
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to be made in Hull meanwhile UK's Energy
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Secretary millerand told journalists at
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the conference that the UK will seek to
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find common ground with Donald Trump on
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climate change we will seek to find
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Common Ground uh with Donald Trump he
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will make his own decisions about what
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he wants to do I obviously want him to
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stay in the Paris climate agement but
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that's his decision it comes as former
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chief executive of BP Bob Dudley told
2:21
cityam that the Energy Secretary was
2:24
ignoring the reality of modern energy
2:26
demands by aggressively taxing the UK's
2:28
oil and gas sector to fund the taxpayer
2:31
funded Great British energy here at city
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am we would like to know what do you
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think of the emissions Target set out by
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Cirus stama let us know your thoughts
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