 A now we're taking you to stories from outside Africa former United States President Barack Obama. On Monday, November 8, lambasted those who would play politics to avoid acting on climate change calling up Russia and China in the same breath as Republican politicians back home. He said it was particularly discouraging to see the leaders of the two world's largest emiters, China, Russia. Declining to even attend the proceedings in Glasgow, Obama said. Most nations have failed to be as ambitious as they need to be. The escalation, the ratcheting up of ambition that we anticipated in Paris six years ago, has not been uniformly realized. I have to confess it was particularly discouraging to see the leaders of two of the world's largest emitters, China and Russia, declined to even attend the proceedings. And their national plans so far reflect what appears to be a dangerous lack of urgency, a willingness to maintain the status quo on the part of those governments. And that's a shame. We need advanced economies like the U.S. and Europe leading on this issue. But you know the facts. We also need China and India leading on this issue. We need Russia leading on this issue just as we need Indonesia and South Africa and Brazil leading on this issue. We can't afford anybody on the sidelines. The head of Ghana's Environmental Protection Agency, Henry Kofu, said negotiations over funds for adoption and resilience in the nation's hardest hits by climate change were not reflecting the levels of ambition publicly voiced by developed countries. It is very disheartening to note that the global goal on adaptation, GCA, aspect article 7.1 of Paris Agreement is still non-operational. And at this current negotiation rooms, African negotiators are finding it very difficult pushing this agenda through. What has been said at the higher levels of commitment by our colleagues in the G20s and the developed countries are far different from what is happening in the negotiations rooms. It's very unfortunate and sad indeed.