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Enjoy more audio and podcasts oniOSorAndroid. Editor’s note: This article has been updated to take in news of Joe Biden’s climate summit, which occurred after The Economist went to press MEETINGS OF GLOBAL leaders always combine, in varying proportions, pomp, substance, glitches and questionable set design. The first day of President Joe Biden’s virtual climate summit on April 22nd was no different. There were lofty declarations and flurries of press releases. Presidents spoke from desks festooned by flags. Mr Biden—along with John Kerry and Antony Blinken, America’s climate envoy ...

This week’s climate change summit features lots of talk from different nations about their goals for reducing carbon emissions

by Seth Borenstein, AP Science Writer — April 22, 2021 . 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 fro...

Explainer: Why nations’ climate targets don’t compare Seth Borenstein 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 baseli...

19 April 2021 The United States and China have issued a joint statement saying they are “firmly committed” to cooperating on tackling climate change, in a hopeful sign deteriorating relations between the two powers will not hamper global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The statement, released late Sunday and signed by US climate envoy John Kerry and Chinese climate envoy Xie Zhenhua, follows days of intensive talks in Shanghai. It contains no hard details or targets, but reaffirms each country’s commitment to the Paris Agreement, tentatively setting the scene for a successfu...