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Rich countries have failed to provide the financial assistance needed for the developing world to cut greenhouse gas emissions and cope with the impacts of climate breakdown, poorer nations have warned, after a US summit of world leaders ended with few new funding promises.
The failure leaves billions of people at risk from the worsening ravages of extreme weather, as poor countries struggle with the Covid-19 crisis and rapidly mounting debt.
US president Joe Biden brought together more than 40 world leaders for a two-day virtual White House summit on the climate crisis. The US led with a bold new target of halving carbon emissions this decade, while countries including Canada, Japan and South Africa also strengthened their emissions targets.
Wealthy nations failing to help developing world tackle climate crisis
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The United States convened 40 world leaders at the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate to accelerate the global response to the climate crisis and keep the goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees C (2.7 degrees F) within reach. Held on Earth Day, five years after the formal signing of the Paris Agreement, the gathering turned out to be a valuable opportunity to harvest climate commitments from some major emitters. It also planted the seeds for further action from additional countries in the months ahead of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.
Here’s a summary of the highs and lows:
Which Countries Strengthened Their Emissions-reduction Targets?
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