Description
Added on the 02/06/2017 13:42:00 - Copyright : Cover Video EN
Leonardo Di Caprio talks about what it feels like to win his first ever Oscar for 'The Revenant' and also talks about his extreme passion for global climate change awareness. He also goes in depth about what he's doing to make a difference and who he's voting for to help lead America in the right direction.
Steven A Henry via Getty Images Scott Stringer, an early front-runner for New York City mayor, pledged to completely phase out fossil fuels, drive private utility companies out of the nation’s largest metropolis, and “electrify everything” in a near total embrace of climate activists’ demands ahead of this year’s election. The 34-page proposal Stringer laid out Sunday would transform the five boroughs, glazing the rooftops with solar panels and battery units, prioritizing bike lanes and pedestrian walkways over highways, and providing new programs to make electricity cheaper and green jobs more plentiful for the city’s squeezed working class.
Republican electoral victories Tuesday cast doubt over whether the US would enact any significant measures to curb planet-heating emissions in the near-term. States were still tallying results on Wednesday as the Trump administration officially withdrew from the Paris climate agreement. According to HuffPost, that makes the US the only country to exit the nonbinding global pact to cut climate-changing carbon emissions. In Montana and Texas, climate-change-denying candidates cruised to victory. While many Senate and House races remain undecided, two sunny spots for climate advocates and environmentalists were in Arizona and in Colorado. Democrat Mark Kelly handily beat Arizona Republican Sen. Martha McSally. Kelly made tackling climate change a key part of his platform. And in Colorado, former governor and 2020 presidential contender John Hickenlooper ousted Republican Sen. Cory Gardner. Claiming to be a 'national leader' on climate, Gardner consistently peddles the conspiracy theory that environmentalists are plotting to control the economy.
Leonardo DiCaprio is asked a question by one of the reporters in the audience during his Oscar win that throws him slightly off guard. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu also gets stooped as they try to answer the question as simply as possible.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu talk about winning an Oscar and the fan base they had from the beginning. They talk about how the internet had spoken and they wish that they were able to meet every single person that had rooted for them.
Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio was recognized for leadership on global climate change at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Jane Witherspoon reports.
|
Support : Technical 
- Content 
- Editors 
