Washington:
US President Joe Biden has invited 40 planet leaders, which includes Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to the Leaders’ Summit on Climate to underscore the urgency and the financial rewards of stronger climate action, the White House stated.
The two-day summit will be held practically on April 22-23 and will be telecasted live for public viewing.
“It will be a key milestone on the road to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) this November in Glasgow,” the White House stated on Friday.
Besides Modi, other leaders invited for the summit include things like Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Saudi Arabia King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Bhutanese Prime Minister Lotay Tshering are the other two leaders from South Asia to be invited for the two-day mega conference on climate adjust.
The White House stated a essential objective of each the Leaders’ Summit and the COP26 will be to catalyse efforts to maintain limiting warming 1.5 degree Celsius” purpose inside attain. The summit will also highlight examples of how enhanced climate ambition will produce very good paying jobs, advance revolutionary technologies and aid vulnerable nations adapt to climate impacts, it added.
By the time of the summit, the United States will announce an ambitious 2030 emissions target as its new Nationally Determined Contribution below the Paris Agreement, the White House stated.
In his invitation, Biden urged leaders to use the summit as an chance to outline how their nations also will contribute to stronger climate ambition, it stated.
The summit will reconvene the US-led Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, which brings with each other 17 nations accountable for roughly 80 % of worldwide emissions and worldwide GDP.
Biden also invited the heads of other nations that are demonstrating sturdy climate leadership, are in particular vulnerable to climate impacts, or are charting revolutionary pathways to a net-zero economy.
A tiny quantity of small business and civil society leaders will also participate in the summit, the White House stated.
Key themes of the summit will include things like galvanising efforts by the world’s important economies to minimize emissions for the duration of this vital decade to maintain a limit to warming of 1.5 degree Celsius inside attain and mobilising public and private sector finance to drive the net-zero transition and to aid vulnerable nations cope with climate impacts, it stated.
The summit will also look into the financial rewards of climate action, with a sturdy emphasis on job creation, and the significance of making certain all communities and workers advantage from the transition to a new clean power economy and spurring transformational technologies that can aid minimize emissions and adapt to climate adjust, whilst also developing massive new financial possibilities and creating the industries of the future, the White House stated.
Among other essential concerns include things like showcasing sub-national and non-state actors that are committed to green recovery and an equitable vision for limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, and are working closely with national governments to advance ambition and resilience, it stated.
The two-day summit will also go over possibilities to strengthen capacity to guard lives and livelihoods from the impacts of climate adjust, address the worldwide safety challenges posed by climate adjust and the influence on readiness, and address the part of nature-based options in reaching net-zero by 2050 targets, the White House stated.