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WASHINGTON — The spending legislation President Joe Biden signed Tuesday provides about one-third of the money the White House, the House and the Senate wanted to spend on international climate programs and stripped out all congressional money for a fund for low-income nations to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change.
The latest United Nations report on the greenhouse gas emissions gap paints bleak picture for the climate accord target.
WhatsApp TODAY JOE BIDEN, America’s president, is playing host to 40 world leaders in a virtual climate summit. He kicked it off with a plan to cut America’s greenhouse-gas emissions in half by 2030, compared with their levels in 2005. That is nearly twice the reduction promised by Barack Obama in 2015 (and later cancelled by Donald Trump). Other countries are announcing similar pledges, known as “nationally determined contributions” (NDCs), which are a crucial part of the global framework to tackle climate change. But what exactly are they? The concept of NDCs was first introduced at...