Biden Urges World Leaders to Keep Promises on Climate Following Summit

U.S. President Joe Biden praised world leaders for coming together on climate change and urged them to make good on promises as he closed a virtual climate change summit hosted from the White House.

“The commitments we’ve made must become real,” Biden said Friday on the last day of the two-day summit that involved 40 world leaders. Sorry, but your browser cannot support embedded video of this type, you can download this video to view it offline. Biden pledged during the summit to cut U.S. greenhouse gas pollution by 50-52% by 2030. Japan and Canada also raised climate commitments during the summit while the European Union and Britain announced stronger climate targets earlier this week. John Kerry, Biden’s climate envoy, said that more than half the world’s economy has now pledged action to stop warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, a goal set by the 2015 Paris Agreement.