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Published: Friday, April 23, 2021 Joe Biden. Photo credit: Al Drago/CNP / Polaris/Newscom President Biden announced historic emissions targets yesterday at a White House climate summit attended virtually by dozens of world leaders. Al Drago/CNP/Polaris/Newscom The United States plunged back into the climate fight yesterday, shaking off years of denial and embracing steep cuts to carbon emissions that scientists say might keep global warming in check. "This is the decisive decade. This is the decade we must make decisions that avoid the worst consequences of the climate crisis," President Bide...

  WASHINGTON -- This week's climate change summit features lots of talk from different nations about their goals for reducing carbon emissions. But in the weird world of national climate pledges, numbers often aren't quite what they seem. Sometimes a 55% reduction is about equal to 50% to 52%. Sometimes it's even less. Sometimes it's way more. As part of the Paris climate agreement process, each nation picks its own national goals for how much greenhouse gas should be cut by 2030 and -- crucially -- what baseline year it starts counting from for those cuts. That makes it difficult to com...

The Latest: Biden envisions clean energy jobs as summit ends Associated Press Updated:  Tags:  Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved President Joe Biden speaks to the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate, from the East Room of the White House, Friday, April 23, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) WASHINGTON – The Latest on President Joe Biden's global climate summit (all times local): 11:55 a.m. President Joe Biden has wrapped up his two-day climate summit, saying the climate crisis has created an opportunity to remake the global economy and produce millions of jobs...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Joe Biden's global climate summit (all times...

US AND EU GOALS Both the United States and the European Union are offering similar-sounding pledges of cutting around half their emissions by 2030. But depending on what year you start from, each can sound significantly deeper than the other. The European Union goal, newly approved by the union’s parliament, is 55% below 1990 levels. The new U.S. goal announced Thursday by President Joe Biden is 50% to 52% below 2005 levels. If you convert the European goal to the American-preferred 2005 baseline, the two are the same. The European Union goal translates to 51% below 2005 levels, which is on...