President Joe Biden Hosting 40 International Leaders At Virtual Climate Summit
US president Joe Biden is currently hosting 40 leaders at a virtual summit on climate change in the White House in honour of Earth Day, aiming to reassert US global leadership on global warming.
By the end of the summit, the US is expected to release an updated carbon pledge that will see its emissions nearly halved by 2030, as Biden swore to make climate change a key focus for his administration, re-joining the Paris agreement on his first day in office.
Thus far, much of the progress in reducing emissions has been achieved by omitting coal from energy networks, the most polluting of fossil fuels. In a UN report released today, the oceans are also in distress, as it warned that the seas are suffering from pollution, overfishing, and aquaculture.
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Greta Thunberg Warns Congress to Do the Right Thing and End Fossil Fuel Emissions People 2 hrs ago © Provided by People Stephanie Keith/Getty Greta Thunberg
Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg told U.S. lawmakers on Thursday morning to use your common sense and take action to limit and ultimately eliminate the country s fossil-fuel emissions. I m not even going to explain why we need to make real drastic changes and dramatically lower our emissions in line with the overall current, best available science, Thunberg, 18, said while testifying during a virtual congressional hearing on the climate. It is the year 2021, continued the former TIME Person of the Year, who built an international profile with her blunt warnings on the issue. The fact that we are still having this discussion and even more that we are still subsidizing fossil fuels directly or indirectly using taxpayer money is a disgrace.
President Joe Biden announced an ambitious new national climate target at a livestreamed summit of world leaders on April 22, 2021: He pledged to cut U.S. carbon emissions in half by the end of this decade and aim for net zero emissions by 2050.
The new goal is a big deal because it formally brings together the many different ideas on infrastructure, the budget, federal regulatory policy, and disparate actions in the states and industry for transforming the U.S. economy into a highly competitive, yet very green giant. It also signals to the rest of the world that “America is back” and prepared to work on climate change after four years of delay under the Trump administration.