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Biden Climate Conference: US will halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030
The President will present a new fashionable goal at the virtual summit he convenes with the participation of 40 leaders, in order to meet the goals of the climate agreement.
Putin and the President of China will also attend the conference
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Thursday, 22 April 2021, 14:12 Updated: 15:14
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40 leaders from around the world will participate in a virtual summit meeting to discuss the climate crisis (Photo: Reuters)
US President Joe Biden will tonight (Thursday) set ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and promise to offset them by 50% to 52% compared to 2005 emission levels. In doing so, Biden will return America to the forefront of the global fight against climate change, three months after replacing The Donald Trump, who retired from the Paris Climate Agreement.
Forty leaders will attend the virtual summit that Biden convenes in the coming days, including the presidents of China and Russia and the pope. A government official told reporters that Washington's new goals were intended to "challenge the world" with heightened aspirations to combat the climate crisis. This is almost twice the threshold set by former President Barack Obama when the climate agreement was signed in 2015, when Biden served as his deputy.
The source, who spoke anonymously, said that along with the rest of the other leaders' expected announcements, the world would approach a target defined by scientists as necessary to avoid the most severe consequences of climate change - world average temperatures up to one and a half degrees higher than the pre-industrial period.
"More than half of the world's economies are on track to cut emissions at the global rate needed to reach the one and a half degree range," the source said.
"Our coalition has grown."
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Tonight, Biden will present ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and will promise to offset them by 50% (Photo: Reuters)
Japan announced today that it will seek to cut emissions, which experts say are contributing to global warming, by 46% by 2030, a more ambitious target than it has previously pledged.
Canada is also expected to declare similar goals.
The two countries forged close ties with the Biden administration, and the Japanese prime minister was the first guest of the United States president last week.
In addition, the EU confirmed its ambitious targets this week and the UK set the most far-reaching targets - a 78% reduction in toxic gas emissions by 2035. The kingdom, which withdrew from the EU earlier this year, will host a summit in Glasgow in November to upgrade the 2015 Paris Agreement.
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