Washington:
US President Joe Biden will pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at least in half by 2030, The Washington Post reported citing two people today familiar with the matter.
The move comes as Biden convenes a virtual summit of more than 3 dozen world leaders, aimed at ratcheting up international climate ambitions and re-establishing the United States as a leader in the work to slow the planet’s warming.
The planned US pledge represents a close to-doubling of the target that the nation committed to below the 2015 Paris climate agreement, when former president Barack Obama vowed to reduce emissions by 26 to 28 per cent compared with 2005 levels, The Washington Post reported. However, a White House official stated a final choice had not been created.
“The Biden-Harris administration will do more than any in history to meet our climate crisis,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated in a speech on Monday. “This is already an all-hands-on-deck effort across our government and across our nation. Our future depends on the choices we make today.”
According to The Washington Post, some nations, such as these that are component of the European Union, currently have locked in more aggressive emissions-cutting targets.
The United Kingdom on Tuesday announced a commitment to minimizing its emissions by 78 per cent by 2035, compared to 1990 levels — a target that the government stated would take the nation more than 3-quarters of the way toward reaching net zero by 2050.
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