Biden calls for climate action as Xi renews carbon neutral pledge
Al Jazeera
US president wants to cut country’s gas emissions in half by 2030 from the 2005 level, while Chinese leader sets limits on coal consumption.
US President Joe Biden has opened an international climate summit saying that the United States “isn’t waiting” to lead on an issue of “moral and economic imperative”, as his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, renewed Beijing’s pledge of being carbon neutral by 2060. “The cost of inaction keeps mounting. The United States isn’t waiting,” he said in the opening address of the two-day summit being hosted virtually by the White House on Thursday. As part of his vision for a green economy, Biden announced that by 2030, the US aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions by half of the 2005 level.More Related News