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World whiffs on Biden s pleas for bold climate pledges
After four years of former President Donald Trump s assault on international climate cooperation, foreign leaders are wary of jumping too quickly to follow Washington s lead.
People familiar with the Biden administration s thinking say will call for reducing carbon dioxide by about 50 percent of 2005 levels by 2030. | J. David Ake/AP Photo
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The U.S. is prodding world leaders to come to President Joe Biden s climate summit next week with bold new pledges to fight the rising temperatures threatening the globe but so far, he s coming up empty.
The diffidence from both allies and rivals show how difficult it will be for Biden to live up to his promises to lead the world effort to face down climate change, and comes just three months after Biden
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By Wah Tao | China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-04-15 09:02 Share CLOSE An aerial view shows the storage tanks for treated water at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan February 13, 2021. [Photo/Agencies]
While Japan is adding a new invisible scar to nature and its own probity by blatantly deciding to release nuclear wastewater into the Pacific Ocean, the rare voices of support by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi look perplexing, if not immoral.
Despite widespread criticism, the Japanese government seems determined to dump into the ocean huge amounts of radioactive water from the earthquake-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a decade after revealing its inadequacy in handling the crisis in 2011.
What s at Stake in U.S. Climate Envoy John Kerry s Trip to China Time 1 hr ago Charlie Campbell / Shanghai © LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP via Getty Images US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry speaks to the press after a meeting with the French president at The Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris on March 10, 2021.
On Wednesday, Washington’s climate envoy John Kerry becomes the first senior Biden administration official to visit China but he touches down in Shanghai at a time of high diplomatic tensions.
China and the U.S. are the world’s top two carbon polluters, accounting for 27% and 13% of global greenhouse emissions in 2019, respectively. Their close cooperation is essential if the world is to mitigate the effects of climate change, be it wildfires in California or heat and drought in Australia and melting polar ice.
Biden-Harris Administration by Marianne Kah |April 15, 2021
Natural gas flaring in a West Texas oil field. Photo: Jonathan Cutrer
On January 27, President Biden issued an executive order that put a moratorium on oil and natural gas leasing in federal lands and water while his administration undertakes a comprehensive review and reconsideration of federal oil and gas permitting and leasing practices. The Department of Interior is seeking written comments from a variety of stakeholders by April 15.
This blog post provides a variety of recommendations regarding changes that should be made to the federal oil and gas leasing program, including strategies to reduce flaring and methane emissions, increase royalties, and plug abandoned wells.
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