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In this image from video world leaders participate in the White House Climate Leaders Summit via Zoom Thursday, April 22, 2021. The U.S. opened Thursday’s summit, which is being held virtually by livestream because of the pandemic, with an ambitious pledge to cut by at least one-half the climate-wrecking coal and petroleum fumes that America is pumping out.
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WASHINGTON The leaders of Russia and China put aside their raw-worded disputes with U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday long enough to pledge international cooperation on cutting climate-wrecking coal and petroleum emissions in a livestreamed summit showcasing America’s return to the fight against global warming.
The entire world faces a moment of peril but also a moment of opportunity, Biden declared, speaking from a TV-style chrome-blue set for the virtual summit of 40 world leaders. Participants appeared one after the other onscreen for what appeared to be a mix of live and recorded addresses. The signs are unmistakable, Biden said. The science is undeniable. The cost of inaction keeps mounting.
Biden s new U.S. commitment, timed to the summit, would cut America s fossil fuel emissions as much as 52% by 2030. It comes after four years of international withdrawal from the issue under President Donald Trump, who mocked the science of climate change and pulled the U.S. out of the landmark 2015 Paris climate accord.
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US to double public climate finance to developing countries by 2024 ANI | Updated: Apr 23, 2021 01:05 IST
Washington [US], April 23 (ANI): The United States has said it intends to double public climate finance to developing countries by 2024.
As part of the goal, the White House on Thursday (local time) said that by 2024, it would triple the financing of climate adaptation. It said it will work with Congress to enact needed legislation. The United States intends to double, by 2024, our annual public climate finance to developing countries relative to the average level during the second half of the Obama-Biden Administration (FY 2013-2016). As part of this goal, the United States intends to triple our adaptation finance by 2024. The Biden Administration will work closely with Congress to meet these goals, the White House said in a media release.