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tech2 News StaffApr 21, 2021 15:53:03 IST

Editor’s Note: This is an ongoing story and details will be added as and when it is made available.

On Earth Day, 22 April, the US President Joe Biden has decided to host a meeting with the world’s leaders titled the ‘Leaders Summit on Climate’. It is a two-day conference and has been in the works since he took office on 20 January. Many say that this summit is a precursor to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) that will take place later this year in Glasglow. This is supposed to “galvanise efforts by the major economies to tackle the climate crisis” and “underscore the urgency – and the economic benefits – of stronger climate action.”

President Joe Biden at the White House in Washington. Image credit: AP Photo/Evan Vucci

Watch it online

The Leaders Summit on Climate is a two-day event that will begin on 22 April and end on 23 April. It will be a virtual event owing to the pandemic making travel impossible. The event will be streamed online and available for the public to watch. However, no time or website has been provided as yet.

Summit Objectives

Biden has urged the other leaders to use this summit as an opportunity to release their countries climate ambition and how they will take action to reduce emissions. The US is also expected to announce its ambitious 2030 emissions target as its new Nationally Determined Contribution under the Paris Agreement.

The main objectives of this summit are:

– Get the world’s major economies to reduce emission in this decade while also getting the public and private sector involvement.
– Show how climate action can have economic and social benefits. Build new businesses and industries.
– Using the technology available to adapt to climate change but also reduce emissions. Use nature-based solutions to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
– Protect lives and livelihoods by finding ways to adapt to climate change.

The US also want to “reconvene the US-led Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate” that was started by former President Barack Obama in March 2009. It is a forum that gets together the 17 major economies that are responsible for approximately 80 percent of global emissions as well as global GDP. They are:

Australia
Brazil
Canada
China
the European Union
France
Germany
India
Indonesia
Italy
Japan
Korea
Mexico
Russia
South Africa
the United Kingdom
the United States

Who is attending?

The world’s top five highest emitters are China, The United States, India, Russia and Japan. Biden has invited a total of 40 national leaders to attend this two-day virtual climate summit. Recently, China, UK, Canada and Russia have accepted the invitations and announced that they will attend this summit online. However, the final list of attendees who have accepted this invitation and will be attending the Summit is yet to be announced.

The list of invitees are: