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President Biden delivers opening remarks to the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate from the East Room of the White House on Thursday. Evan Vucci/AP
Calling climate change the existential crisis of our time, President Joe Biden announced an aggressive new plan to reduce the United States contribution to global warming during a two-day virtual summit Thursday, and urged other countries to do the same.
Immediacy is needed. Average global temperatures have already increased more than 2 degrees Fahrenheit, or 1.2 degrees Celsius, since 1880 and scientists have long stressed the need to keep temperature increases below 1.5 degrees Celsius to avoid the most catastrophic climate change scenarios.
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden pledged to cut U.S. greenhouse gas pollution in half by 2030 at a virtual climate summit Thursday, outlining an aggressive target that would require sweeping changes to America s energy and transportation sectors.
The White House also said it would double its climate-related financing for low-income countries by 2024 and push the private sector to fund sustainable infrastructure, mitigation initiatives and other investments. These steps will set America on a path of a net-zero emissions economy by no later than 2050, Biden said as the White House opened the two-day summit, attended by 40 leaders from around the world. Scientists tell us that this is the decisive decade, this is the decade we must make decisions that will avoid the worst consequences of a climate crisis, Biden said.
Adopt ‘immediate action plan’ to cut carbon emissions, PM urges developed countries
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22nd April, 2021 07:51:54
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged the developed countries to formulate an “immediate and ambitious action plan” to cut their carbon emissions to protect the planet from the adverse impact of climate change as she placed a four-point proposal at a high-level global climate summit.
While delivering her statement at the virtual “Leaders’ Summit on Climate”, convened by US President Joe Biden, the prime minister simultaneously called for “strong collective response” to address global crisis like the climate change and ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
Sheikh Hasina joined the summit at the invitation of the Joe Biden. John Kerry, the US special presidential envoy for climate, handed over an invitation letter to the Bangladesh premier in Dhaka on April 9 to participate in the summit.
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