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Climate, Biden invites Putin and Xi to the virtual summit

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The summit wanted by Joe Biden to mark the return of the United States to the front line against global warming is beginning to take shape: Washington invited 40 world leaders on 22 and 23 April, including the Chinese and Russian presidents. The summit will be “virtual” due to the pandemic but “broadcast live”, reads a statement from the White House. The US president explained to reporters that he has not “spoken yet” with his counterparts Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, “but they know they are invited,” he added. While showing great firmness towards China and Russia, the American president says he wants to cooperate with the two opposing powers of the United States. Among the other invited leaders are, on the European side, the French President Emmanuel Macron, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Israeli head of government Benjamin Netanyahu, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Brazilian Jair Bolsonaro are also invited.

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After Donald Trump’s disengagement, the new president, as promised, decided on his first day in the White House, January 20, to bring the United States back into the Paris climate agreement. Already at the end of January, Joe Biden announced his intention to organize a climate summit on April 22 to coincide with Earth Day. The meeting will ultimately be held over two days to “underscore the urgency – and the economic benefits – of more resolute climate action,” the White House said. It will mark “an important step” towards the major United Nations climate conference, COP26, scheduled for November in Glasgow, Scotland.

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The US president has pledged to reduce pollution levels in the US energy sector to zero by 2035 and that the economy will reach carbon neutrality by 2050. Taken from handling the health and economic crisis, Joe Biden is so far relatively behind on this issue, leaving his special climate envoy John Kerry to set the stage. The latter, a former secretary of state and former White House candidate, called on states to revise their climate ambitions at the Glasgow summit. The Paris Agreement aims to limit the rise in global temperatures to two degrees above the levels of the pre-industrial revolution and to continue efforts to limit this increase to 1.5 degrees.

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