u.s. president joe biden signed an executive order on wednesday setting a target for the country to reach net zero emissions by 2050. his latest step in the president s infrastructure plan he touted wednesday while in missouri. we re in a situation where we ve known that our infrastructure had problems from long, long time. i don t think i could take one more phrase, it s going to be infrastructure week. [ applause ] and guess what? it s going to be infrastructure decade now, man. [ cheers and applause ] no more talk. action. the president toured the kansas city transportation authority while the infrastructure bill is still being negotiated back in washington. the white house hopes the executive order will show a readiness to reach the president s ambitious climate change goals. russia and china are busy
conference that begins in glasgow next week, so the g20 leaders will go from here in rome to glasgow on monday to hammer out the discussion there and try to reach the ambitious climate change goals. the talks are taking place in this southern suburb of rome. you can see some of the more modernist, let s say, architecture behind us. the building behind me is often referred to as the square coliseum, because it has the square coliseum, because it has the arches of the colosseum as inspiration, it was built in the 19305 inspiration, it was built in the 1930s and designed under mussolini as an attempt to showcase fascist architecture, so a far cry from the beautiful architecture of ancient rome. so we have been through some of those beautiful sites in the centre of the city to explain to you what the g20 is all about. politics, negotiations, haggling, rome politics, negotiations, haggling, rome has seen it all before.
particular topic? of course, we are just a couple of days away now from the un climate change conference in glasgow, that has been billed as the last best hope to stop runaway climate change. joe biden will be one of the world leaders at that meeting in glasgow. he is one of the t20 leaders, the leaders of the group of 20 worlds largest economies reading here in rome dash mac meeting here in rome this weekend. the helicopter is overhead. i think the arrival ofjoe biden is very close. pope francis will not be present at that meeting in glasgow, despite expectations that he would attend. that is a blow to the cop26 organisers, but he would hope there is message on the bbc today, and is meeting withjoe biden, that he will urge world leaders in glasgow to reach agreement on those all important climate change goals.
$100 billion a year to help developing countries deal with climate change. and the level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a new record last year that s from meteorologists at the un. the head of the agency that released that report says that we need to revisit our industrial, energy and transport systems and whole way of life to meet our climate change goals. earlier, i spoke to george marshall, the founder of climate 0utreach, a charity which aims to raise awareness of climate change. clearly, the story has been the same for the past 30 years. we ve always known what to do. the thing that seems to be really necessary now is a reinvigoration of the conversation around climate change. large majorities of most of the high emitting countries support strong climate action. so it s really