do you expect to see real progress, hard progress on climate here and in scotland? to be honest, the disappointing sans no. what you ll get are pledges or commitments that say by 2050 or whatever they ll reach this or that amount of carbon emissions, hopefully net zero. they won t tell you the rate they ll get there. china is talking about 2060, but it s going to increase its emissions over the next decade as they phase in not out for coal plants. so, no, i m not wildly optimistic. we ll also see how much money they make available to poorer companies to help them adapt to climate change, transition to green technologies. so far, at least, people s wallets have not been as open as they need to be. no question. now, you can ark subst substantively let s listen in for a moment here as we see draghi, prime minister draghi, greet president biden. bear with us, please,
diplomatic sources who were unhappy with the way the afghanistan withdrawal happened, of course nic was talking about the interactions coming up between president biden and the french president. everyone will be watching that closely to see have they mended those fences that they were talking about. of course that disruption between the two of them that even led the french to recall their ambassador back as a sign of anger towards the biden administration for cutting them out of that deal and not keeping them informed of what was happening when it came to australia and the united kingdom. of course those are not the only important meetings that the president has on his schedule. he s meeting with a series of world leaders at the g-20 and meeting with the turkish president on the sidelines of that international climate summit. that will be a big one to watch. i also think it s important to note who is not here and that is the chinese president and the russian president. the white house
agenda. he has a framework, and by the way, progressives came out publicly last night saying they support that framework. that s no small thing. but he didn t have the agreement he wanted including on climate. is that a problem for him here? it s something of a problem. he s got the poll numbers, which aren t great, curiosity about what happens tuesday in virginia. it s bigger than this. when foreigners look at the united states, they don t recognize a lot of what they see. they see a political system that often can t deliver. they see january 6th. they see divisions. so the immediate problems that joe biden faces are part of a much larger picture which has raised doubts about our reliability and predictability. ambassador, i know you speak yourself and you re hearing of course the u.s. national anthem being played there as president biden is greeted by the italian leader mario draghi here in rome, a short distance
some credit due, assuming that happens. but also what s disappointing is what s not happening. we don t see the united states doing anything to place a price on carbon. we re not increasing, for example, certain types of taxes. we re not threatening the brazilians, who are destroying the rain forest, not threatening them with sanctions. we re not putting pressure on chinese exports that are made from coal. so, yeah, i m glad to see the $500 million in the budget and hopefully it s spent well. but again, i m more struck that for all the priority that is give on the climate, i m more struck by what s not in the budget and what s not being done. there are a lot of holes from the initial promises across the board. ambassador richard haass, thanks for joining us this morning. thanks for having me. a lot more to cover here in rome as the president continues a busy schedule, a face-to-face meeting with world leaders. we ll bring them to you live.
12 members, 4 altdealternates. martin, thank you. back to jim in rome for more on president biden s meetings throughout the day today. jim? we got remarkable details from the president himself on his meeting earlier today with pope francis. the president as he was meeting with the italian prime minister was asked if he had discussed abortion, reproductive rights with pope francis, of course an issue because some u.s. bishops have proposed deny ing biden communion at church because of his support of abortion rights. biden said they didn t discuss rights officially but the pope called him a good catholic and the pope said he should continue sech receiving communion. this is material because you have a meeting of bishops in a couple weeks in a proposal to discuss this, but that is quite an endorsement and shows how