The announcement came after President Biden’s international climate envoy, former secretary of state John F. Kerry, traveled to China this week to meet with his counterparts ahead of a White House climate summit Thursday and Friday. The virtual event will involve dozens of world leaders and is aimed at catalyzing more ambitious action. That would basically double the goal first put forth by President Barack Obama as part of the 2015 Paris climate agreement. Countries pledged then to limit global warming to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels and possibly keep to 1.5 degrees Celsius. But how the world’s biggest emitter plans to make that happen remains unclear.

Source: Washington Post April 18, 2021 03:10 UTC