Key takeaways from today's US-hosted climate change summit
President Biden joined dozens of world leaders today as part of a two-day virtual summit to address the global climate crisis.
Here were some of the notable developments from the summit:
Global call to action: Biden asked
world leaders to take action to combat climate change collectively as he announced an aggressive new goal for greenhouse gas emissions. Biden pointed to actions the US would take, an effort to reassert US leadership and put the US back to the center of the global effort to address the climate crisis after the Trump administration largely disengaged. “The signs are unmistakable, the science is undeniable that the cost of inaction, it just keeps mounting. The United States isn’t waiting. We are resolving to take action, not only our federal government, but our cities and our states all across our country, small businesses, large corporations, American workers in every field,” he said.