President Joe Biden, who has recently focused on boosting oil production to reduce rising gasoline costs, will announce more green initiatives this Friday to combat the energy and food crises the world is experiencing as a result of high inflation and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
During the conference known as
the Forum of the Major Economies on Energy and Climate,
which began under the presidency of Barack Obama in 2009, Biden will propose
four new measures
to the rest of the participating countries, according to a senior US government official in a call to the news agency Efe.
Participants will include China, Germany, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom and the European Union.
Also present will be Egypt, which is hosting the next United Nations summit on climate change, and UN Secretary General António Guterres.
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The first of the measures proposed by Biden is the
reduction of methane leaks.
The second is
to put more electric vehicles on
the road and decarbonize maritime freight transport to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the logistics sector and also end dependence on volatile oil market prices.
Biden will also propose
accelerating the commercialization of new clean energy technologies
and, ultimately,
increasing the efficiency of fertilizers
and their alternatives to achieve emission reductions in the agricultural sector and advance global food security.
The White House said the meeting is a "continuation of the President's efforts to pull out all the stops to address the global climate crisis."
Senior administration officials, who were not authorized to comment publicly before the event, told The Associated Press that Biden would use the opportunity to urge his counterparts to
take additional efforts
to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions. .
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Officials said they expect some of the countries to announce more ambitious climate goals as part of the landmark agreement reached in Paris in 2015.
But the Russian invasion of Ukraine has put Biden's climate goals in check by driving up the cost of gasoline.
Facing political pressure to rein in prices in a midterm election year, the Democratic president has urged US oil refiners to produce more fuel.
Biden is also expected to visit Saudi Arabia next month.
The White House recently praised the kingdom after OPEC+ announced it would pump more oil to boost global supply.
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