7 takeaways from the White House climate summit of world leaders By Cara Korte Biden s climate summit wraps up
More than 40 world leaders, 14 cabinet members, 8 CEOs and Pope Francis joined President Biden s two-day virtual Leaders Climate Summit on Thursday and Friday. Nations touted their climate ambitions, announced collaborations, and agreed on the urgency of the climate crisis.
Here are seven takeaways from the summit:
1. The U.S. wants to lead in the fight against climate change
Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry said Thursday that the summit reestablished the U.S. as a global leader in the climate fight. We had to restore America s credibility. We had to prove that we were serious, he said at a White House briefing. And, I think, today does that in many ways.
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Paris Climate Agreement lead negotiator Christiana Figueres discussed the need for timely action to fight the climate crisis at the Kennedy Schoolâs annual Robert S. McNamara Lecture on War and Peace on Thursday.
Kennedy School Dean Douglas W. Elmendorf and Kathryn Sikkink, a professor of human rights policy at HKS, moderated the event, which was co-hosted by the JFK Jr. Forum, the Institute of Politics, and the Forum at the School of Public Health.
Figueres, a Costa Rican diplomat who served as executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2010 to 2016, said she feels optimistic about current progress in the fight against climate change. She noted that a âa critical massâ of countries have begun to take steps to curb their carbon emissions and that many wealthy institutions, including Harvard, have agreed to reach a net-zero carbon portfolio by 2050, consistent with the timeline of the Paris Agreement.
President Muhammadu Buhari has commended the United States President Joe Biden for rejoining the Paris Agreement. The action was one of the first orders
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