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iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on Apr 19, 2021 11:43am The Lead The U.S. and China have committed to fight climate change together “with the seriousness and urgency that it demands.” The announcement came on Saturday night after U.S. climate envoy John Kerry, visited China for three days of meetings, Reuters reports. “Climate is a life-or-death issue in so many different parts of the world,” Kerry said in an interview Sunday morning in Seoul, where he met with South Korean officials to discuss global warming. “What we need to do is prove we can actually get together, sit dow...

iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on Apr 19, 2021 11:43am The Lead The U.S. and China have committed to fight climate change together “with the seriousness and urgency that it demands.” The announcement came on Saturday night after U.S. climate envoy John Kerry visited China for three days of meetings, Reuters reports. “Climate is a life-or-death issue in so many different parts of the world,” Kerry said in an interview on Sunday in Seoul, where he met with South Korean officials to discuss global warming. “What we need to do is prove we can actually get together, sit down, and...

Share this article The United States is back in the Paris climate accord, but the depth of its commitment will become clear only in the next two weeks, when President Joe Biden unveils the details of the nation’s pledge for reducing greenhouse gas pollution. President Barack Obama pledged that the United States would cut emissions 26 to 28 percent by 2025, a goal the nation is not quite on track to meet. But environmental advocates are pushing for Biden to set a goal of at least a 50 percent cut in U.S. emissions by 2030, based on a slew of recent studies, including research by the United N...

Reynold Atagoran/AFP via Getty Images On April 22, President Biden will convene global leaders for a virtual climate summit in a bid to reassert US leadership and motivate countries to cut emissions much more aggressively. Of course, the US is only just recommitting to climate action itself after a long leadership vacuum. During his presidency, Donald Trump tore down dozens of environmental regulations and withdrew the US from the Paris climate agreement, undermining global progress to reduce emissions. Now, to reassure the world that the US takes the climate threat seriously, Biden plans t...

How Biden's infrastructure plan addresses the climate crisis Issued on: 01/04/2021 - 23:58 Electric energy generating wind turbines are seen on a wind farm in the San Gorgonio Pass area in Palm Springs David McNew AFP/File 4 min Washington (AFP) It's no coincidence US President Joe Biden chose manufacturing hub Pittsburgh to unveil his $2 trillion green infrastructure plan, a bold pitch to Americans used to hearing that climate action will wreck industry. So how does "The American Jobs Plan" try to place the environment at the heart of America's fu...