April 23, 2021
Sweeping new commitments aimed at drastically reducing the world’s carbon emissions were announced this week at the Earth Day climate summit on April 22-23. The main purpose of the summit, virtually hosted by US president Joe Biden, was to escalate global climate ambition ahead of the five-year anniversary of the Paris Agreement.
And on that count it delivered.
If companies and governments keep the pledges made this week, the world will be much closer to averting the most catastrophic predictions for global warming. “It was striking to see how ambitious and bold this [US] administration is willing to be,” said Nathaniel Keohane, senior vice president at the Environmental Defense Fund. The key battle lines for the next phase of the climate crisis are now drawn, said Keohane, “but I think the full measure of this summit and diplomacy that went in this week will only be fully seen at the end of year,” the COP26 summit held this November in Glasgow.
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