Biden prompts bolder climate pledges at global summit

摘要

President Biden used his first international conference to show world leaders that the United States has significant new climate ambitions and pressed other countries to go beyond their current plans. "We have to move. We have to move quickly," Biden said at the kickoff to the two-day summit with 40 other countries that produce about 80% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. For some of the world's biggest emitters, it worked. Canada, Japan and the United Kingdom all ramped up plans to decarbonize their economy by setting more rapid timelines. Quicker carbon cuts will accelerate cuts in greenhouse gas emissions among some of the world's biggest emitters and transition the world away from coal and toward more clean energy options. "It's vital for all of us to show that this is not some expensive, politically correct green act of bunny-hugging," British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.