The Twitter Files began on December 2 after CEO Elon Musk promised to release the company s internal dialogue regarding the suppression of the New York Post s Hunter Biden laptop story.
Washington, Nov 17 (EFE).- Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday that she will not seek re-election as leader of the Democrats in the United States House of Representatives at the start of the new Congress in January. “My friends, no matter what title you all have bestowed upon me, speaker, leader, whip, there is no greater official …
Doubles down on emissions
This week Biden fulfilled a campaign promise in convening a “global climate summit” within his first 100 days in office. The two-day virtual meeting, attended by the leaders of a number of US allies and two of its adversaries China and Russia appears like many of these gatherings to be mostly a talking shop.
But a decision on Thursday is substantive, and therefore bears examination. The president committed the US to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to 52% below its 2005 emissions levels by 2030, without revealing any details as to how this would be achieved.
The announcement also brings GHG reduction targets 20 years forward from what is set out in Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure/ clean energy proposal unveiled in March. That plan commits to net-zero emissions by 2050 (net-zero refers to balancing the amount of emitted greenhouse gases with the equivalent emissions that are either offset or sequestered).