Earth Day: US and Japan confirm ambitious new climate targets
President Joe Bide | Credit: White House
Biden administration confirms new national climate action will commit US to cutting emissions by 50 to 52 per cent against 2005 levels by 2030
President Biden will today announce a new target for the US to deliver a 50 to 52 per cent cut in greenhouse gas emissions against 2005 levels by 2030, in a move that should trigger billions of dollars of investment in new low carbon infrastructure.
The announcement is set to form the centre piece of day one of the White House s Climate Leaders Summit, which will today see around 40 leaders from the world s biggest economies come together to discuss how to accelerate global climate action.
CHARLESTON West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is strongly criticizing President Joe Biden’s call to cut greenhouse gas emissions at least 50 percent by 2030.
Biden s proposal, which was announced April 22 at the virtual Climate Leaders Summit on Earth Day, would cut emissions in half as compared to 2005 – significantly more than President Obama ever proposed.
“President Biden’s promise that America will undertake radical, transformational and too-rapid reductions in carbon emissions by the end of this decade is a domestic and foreign policy blunder of almost unfathomable proportions, Morrisey said. Meeting Biden’s commitment would cause energy costs and the prices of American-made goods to skyrocket. It would necessarily take over nearly every aspect of American life requiring drastic changes for homes, businesses and factories while crippling our country’s ability to compete on the world stage.
Climate Leaders Summit: US, Canada, and Japan unveil enhanced 2030 climate plans, as China hints at coal phase down
Boris Johnson addresses delegates at the climate summit
First day of climate summit hosted by US offers up a number of enhanced climate targets from world leaders as Prime Minister Johnson insists he is not a bunny hugger
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson hymned the need to boost climate finance for developing countries, tackle biodiversity loss, and build back better from the pandemic as he took to the virtual podium of the Climate Leaders Summit this afternoon, offering a characteristically optimistic rallying call to world leaders on a day when a number of leading economies unveil enhanced climate goals.
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