The United States will mark its return to the global fight against climate change on Monday by joining high level talks on ways to better protect people and economies from the effects of global warming already taking place.
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By Bart H. Meijer
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The United States is proud to be back in international efforts to tackle global warming, Washington s new special climate envoy John Kerry told a summit of world leaders on Monday.
U.S. President Joe Biden is this week expected to release more policies to tackle climate change after rejoining the 2015 Paris climate agreement that predecessor Donald Trump quit saying it was too costly to the U.S. economy. We re proud to be back. We come back with humility for the absence over the last four years and we will do everything in our power to make up for it, Kerry told the virtual Climate Adaptation Summit, hosted by the Netherlands, by video link.
U.S. climate envoy John Kerry has told a global virtual summit that the world has to take decisive action to build resilience to the devastating effects of climate change and pledged that President Joe Biden's new administration would play its role
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Less than a week after President Joe Biden announced the return of the United States to the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, his Special Climate Envoy John Kerry will join China s Deputy Prime Minister Han Zheng, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other leaders at the Climate Adaptation Summit. Ahead of the meeting, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told France Inter Radio that France is not happy with the lessons learned from the Trump administration s era.
By Laurie Goering
LONDON, Jan 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When severe drought hit south and southeast Asia in 2008, harvests fell, global rice exports shrank and prices shot up as much as 200% around the world – spurring food riots over rising costs in places as far away as rice-loving Senegal.
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Such interconnected threats mean efforts to adapt to growing climate change risks in one village or nation are likely to fail unless officials take a broader look at what’s happening around the world, climate change adaptation experts said.