WATCH: Biden makes case for climate-friendly economic policies at leaders summitPolitics Updated on Apr 23, 2021 2:16 PM EDT Published on Apr 23, 2021 9:08 AM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) World leaders joined President Joe Biden Friday to close his virtual climate summit with stories of their own national drives to break free of climate-wrecking fossil fuels Kenyans leapfrogging from kerosene stoves to geothermal power and Israeli start-ups scrambling to improve battery storage.
Watch Biden’s remarks in the video player above.
“We’re gonna do this together,” Biden exhorted, speaking live to a Zoom-style screen of leaders of national governments, unions and business executives around the world.
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ELLEN KNICKMEYER, CHRISTINA LARSON and MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press
April 22, 2021
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4of5Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry listens as President Joe Biden speaks to the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate, from the East Room of the White House, Thursday, April 22, 2021, in Washington.Evan Vucci/APShow MoreShow Less
As climate summit unfolds, no Biden-Bolsonaro Amazon deal forthcoming
The United States and Brazil have been conducting closed door negotiations to broker an Amazon rainforest protection agreement with the U.S. and other nations tentatively to provide significant funding, and Brazil possibly agreeing to pragmatic measures to end deforestation.
However, as the global Climate Leaders Summit progressed today, it became apparent that those talks are likely stalemated, with no deal announced, nor likely anytime soon.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has made it clear that Amazon conservation is dependent on a big financial investment by the United States. However, Amazon deforestation continued soaring through March, even as critics offered substantial proof Brazil is insincere in its environmental commitments.
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By Richard Morris
Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has updated her Twitter biography to describe herself as a bunny hugger .
The change comes after remarks made by the prime minister, Boris Johnson, to US President Joe Biden s virtual climate summit on 22 April.
In his speech, Boris Johnson described the politically correct green act of bunny hugging .
The remarks made were met with bemusement from some on social media.
It is not the first time the Swedish climate activist - who s also changed her Instagram profile - has used her Twitter bio to make a joke.
image captionThe change was made to her account a few hours after Johnson s speech
Greta Thunberg has poked fun at Prime Minister Boris Johnson, changing her Twitter profile to Bunny hugger after he used the phrase in his speech at Thursday s Climate Summit.
The change came just hours after Johnson used the phrase in his address at the virtual summit held on International Earth Day.
The prime minister said: It s vital for all of us to show that this is not all about some expensive politically correct green act of bunny-hugging or however you want to put it, he said. Nothing wrong with bunny-hugging but you know what I m driving at.
Greta Thunberg has poked fun at Prime Minister Boris Johnson, changing her Twitter profile to Bunny hugger after he use the phrase in his speech at Thursday s Climate Summit