Joe Biden will announce at a major global climate summit on Thursday that the United States will take steps to cut carbon emissions in half by the end of the 2020s, the White House said.
The Leaders Summit on Climate opens at 8 a.m. EDT with opening remarks from President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, who are seeking to reassert the United States as a world leader in efforts to limit global warming to 1.5. degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
The first day of the two-day summit falls on Earth Day, and EarthDay.org will wrap three days of climate action on Thursday.
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The White House said early Thursday that Biden will announce a new target for the United States to achieve a reduction of between 50 and 52% in net greenhouse gas pollution by 2030, compared to 2005 levels.
“On day one, President Biden fulfilled his promise to rejoin the Paris Agreement and set a course for the United States to tackle the climate crisis at home and abroad, reaching net zero emissions economy-wide by no later than 2050. As part of re-entering the Paris Agreement, he also launched a whole-of-government process, organized through his National Climate Task Force, to establish this new 2030 emissions target,” the White House said in a statement.
The U.S. plan includes a goal to reach 100% carbon pollution-free electricity by 2035, reduce pollution from the transportation sector, cut emissions from forests and agriculture and enhance carbon sinks and reduce non-carbon greenhouse gases like methane, hydrofluorocarbons and other pollutants.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry also will participate, along with fellow heads of state and U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres.
The first day of the two-day session comes on the five-year anniversary of the signing of the Paris Agreement on climate change, which seeks to cut global emissions.
At 11:45 a.m., there will be a session on investing in climate solutions with U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Kerry, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina and Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness, among others.
Pope Francis is scheduled to be a featured speaker during the late Thursday morning session.
At 12:45 p.m., there will be a breakout session on adaptation and resilience, featuring U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and numerous climate and energy representatives, including Moroccan Minister of Energy, Mines and Environment Aziz Rabbah and Rwandan Environment Minister Jeanne D’Arc Mujawamariya.
Another breakout session at the same time on “Climate Action at All Levels” will feature U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, among others.
A 2 p.m. breakout session on climate security will include U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield, British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace and Japanese Defense Minister Kishi Nobuo, among others.
At the same time, a breakout session on nature-based solutions will feature U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, Canadian Minister of Environment and Climate Change Jonathan Wilkinson, Peruvian Environment Minister Gabriel Quijandría and Costa Rican Environment and Energy Minister Andrea Meza, among others.
Another full day of events will take place Friday.
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I wonder how great it is going to be with no electricity in our homes in the winter, spring summer and fall. Drive our Country into bankruptcy and the Chinese will walk through our open southern border and take us over.
We need to cut Biden’s emissions by 1/2 before we have no country left to call America.
YOU CAN bet, not one politicians house, will ever be without gas or power…. JUST ours.
more B. S. to build their Fantasy World. Hey Joe , tell BLM and Antifa to stop the arsons all that pollution is not good for climate change !
Unless President Biden is willing to guarentee that all the really polluting nations are going to put the forth the same level of commitment and enforcement then he is whistling past the cemetery. With technically unfeasable projects as a goal nothing will change, except government will be thrown to private companies who in the end will fail, just as we saw with other such schemes.
WE can do all we have done, TILL CHINA, india and the rest play ball, nothing will matter.
The only to achieve Uncle Joe’s goal is with nuclear power. Nothing else is physically feasible or economically viable.
Oh poof, the green loons NEVER EVER let facts and reality get in their way of utopia. The twin disasters of destroy millions of acres of our nation for solar and wind then the economic/enviormental disaster of building hundreds of millions of windmills AND their replacements are a super reality check. Those bird/bat killers are only good for 1/2 their rated life. Well before they are ever paid for.
ahh earth day which by the way is also VLADIMIR LENINS BIRTH DAY!
coincidence ? i think not.
We’re one of the lowest now if not the lowest in the world now. Someone please inform dufus.
I wonder. WILL A single one of those schmucks, be done for LITTERING>>?
And where the hell did they all get pristine looking, PINK, wheel barrows from!
The Dems’ War on Physics is well underway. The next step is to reduce gravity by 50%, because it impacts People of Mass more than others.
Pity we can’t reduce oxygen to their heads, by 10000%!
They were already cut.I can’t call china joey stupid because of being blackballed,but does the robin eat the worm ????
They will accomplish this by raising energy prices so high that the average people will not be able to afford using more than just a little energy. This will happen for both electricity and gasoline. Get ready for America’s new third world economy.
I am already surprised gas has not gone above 3 a gal..
The only way Bidemented can reach his emissions goal is to lockdown Americans in their basements with the heat or AC and lights off and/or locking every car in the garage. China is laughing itself silly as they INCREASE their emissions and race past their limping American competitor that the POTUS shoots in the foot at every opportunity.