strike a deal on his agenda that has been somewhat stuck. right now it appears the president will arrive in rome without a tangible achievement, and that could really handicap his diplomatic efforts overseas. ahead of the g20, he ll meet on friday with pope francis, and after the g20 he ll deliver a keynote address at the cop-26 summit in glasgow, scotland. the president has a lot of fence mending to do with european allies, especially france. if you remember, paris still sore that its lucrative submarine contract was canceled by the u.s. and uk without any advance warning. we ll have much more on president biden s trip, what the g20 can potentially achieve. we ll go to rome shortly. stay with us for that. as we mention, president biden is delaying his departure and will make a final push on democrats to pass his infrastructure measure while negotiations continue on his social spending and climate bill. one of the president s key provisions, paid family leave, appears to be biscuitle
take a listen. it is also important to note that we have made a significant amount of progress, and we are almost there, and that the president is on the verge. we are all on the verge of passing a bill that is the largest investment in addressing the climate crisis in history. and, of course, global leaders take note of that, too. well, the cop-26 summit begins this weekend with the first meeting of world leaders in glasgow. meanwhile, a fight for almost every country short of what is needed to keep global temperatures in check. the u.n. says updated pledges will cut emissions by only an additional 7.5% by 2030. but a much greater cut of the 55% is needed to meet the global goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees celsius. it will warm the planet twice that. until c.e.o.s are paid a
preindustrialized levs. this report says the planet has already warmed 1.2% and it is on track for warming 2.7% by the end of this decade based on the current pledges that only some countries have made heading into this cop-26 summit. there s 197 countries that signed up to the paris climate change accords, but none of them have explained how they are going to be limiting their emissions and putting their money where their mouth is, explaining the actual difficulties and logistics of trying to cut back on hydrocarbon use. this report also says that greenhouse gases are likely the current levels to soar by 16%, and it also goes on to say that as we expect, the big producers of hydrocarbon around the world and the big consumers of hydrocarbons around the world are the serial offenders. now, you ll remember earlier on this week, countries like saudi arabia made a big thing of saying they were going to become climate neutral or reach net zero by 2060, laura.