New Delhi: The United States President Joe Biden has invited 40 world leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a virtual climate summit, the White House knowledgeable on Friday (March 26, 2021).
The Leaders Summit on Climate will likely be hosted by Joe Biden on April 22 and 23.
“Today, President Biden invited 40 world leaders to the Leaders Summit on Climate he will host on April 22 and 23. The virtual Leaders Summit will be live-streamed for public viewing,” the White House mentioned in an official assertion.
The assertion added, “President Biden took action his first day in office to return the United States to the Paris Agreement. Days later, on January 27, he announced that he would soon convene a leaders summit to galvanize efforts by the major economies to tackle the climate crisis.”
Besides, Prime Minister Modi, Joe Biden has additionally invited QUAD leaders Australian PM Scott Morrison and Japanese PM Yoshihide Suga. Chinese President Xi Jinping has additionally been despatched an invite.
In his invitation, the newly-elected US President urged leaders to use the Summit as a possibility to define how their nations additionally will contribute to stronger climate ambition.
As per the White House, the Leaders Summit on Climate will underscore the urgency – and the financial advantages – of stronger climate motion and will likely be a key milestone on the street to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) this November in Glasgow.
Key themes of the Summit will embrace:
1. Galvanizing efforts by the world’s main economies to scale back emissions throughout this important decade to preserve a restrict to warming of 1.5 diploma Celsius inside attain.
2. Mobilizing private and non-private sector finance to drive the net-zero transition and to assist susceptible nations address climate impacts.
3. The financial advantages of climate motion, with a robust emphasis on job creation, and the significance of making certain all communities and staff profit from the transition to a brand new clear vitality financial system.
4. Spurring transformational applied sciences that may assist scale back emissions and adapt to climate change, whereas additionally creating huge new financial alternatives and constructing the industries of the long run.
5. Showcasing subnational and non-state actors which are dedicated to inexperienced restoration and an equitable imaginative and prescient for limiting warming to 1.5 diploma Celsius, and are working carefully with nationwide governments to advance ambition and resilience.
5. Discussing alternatives to strengthen capability to defend lives and livelihoods from the impacts of climate change, handle the worldwide safety challenges posed by climate change and the influence on readiness, and handle the position of nature-based options in attaining net-zero by 2050 targets.
