奥巴马还呼吁停止给新建海外火电厂提供公共资金，除非采取脱碳技术（目前这项技术尚不具经济可行性 ） ， 否则的话，他说 ， “ 最穷国家就没有其他办法发电了。 ”
Obama also called for an end to public financing of new coal plants overseas, unless they deploy carbon-capture technologies (which are not yet economically viable), or else there is, he said, “no other viable way for the poorest countries to generate electricity.”