by VTV423 April 2021 Last updated at 09:36 AM
VTV.vn - Vietnamese State President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc, on Thursday, attended the opening session of the online summit on global climate change at the invitation of U.S President Joe Biden.
40 world leaders including leaders from the largest economies and the largest emitters of greenhouse gases attended the event.
The conference was held on April 22 and 23. Its main purpose is to promote the international community to make stronger global commitments in response to climate change.
The Leaders Summit on Climate is a milestone on the road to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) scheduled for this November in Glasgow, Scotland. The Vietnamese State President will be delivering a speech at the online summit. Vietnam recognizes the urgency of fighting climate change and wants to add its voice to the call for stronger action.
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Four years after President Donald Trump began to pull
the US out of the landmark Paris climate agreement, President Joe Biden and his top officials are re-engaging with world leaders and making aggressive commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
The Biden administration has an unequivocal message
at the two-day Leaders Summit on Climate this week: America is back.
The biggest news out of the virtual event
was the commitments various countries made to reduce their emissions. At the top, Biden formally pledged America would cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to 52 percent relative to 2005 levels by 2030 the most ambitious target the US has set to date. Still, as Vox’s Umair Irfan laid out, some believe the goal is not big enough given the sheer scale of the current climate crisis and pace of warming.
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The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, on Friday called for the creation of an African Green Deal which, like the European Green Deal, would be the “centrepiece” for Africa’s recovery.
Speaking in a recorded message at the opening session of the EU-Africa Forum on Green Investment in Africa, Ursula Von der Leyen called the European Green Deal the “new energy for growth and the centrepiece of recovery” of the European Union (EU).
As such, the leader of the EU executive believes that “the same can be true for Africa” through the creation of “an African Green Deal for a stronger and more prosperous Africa”.