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What did Joe Biden promise?
2 what are carbon emissions?
What is the Paris agreement?
What is the climate crisis?
What does Biden want to be?
What did Donald Trump do before he
stopped being president to the USA?
7 What would the US like China & India to de
BIDEN PLEDGES TO HALF CARBON EMISSIONS BY 2030
BBC News Round
22nd April 2021
US president Joe Biden hosted 40 world leaders at the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate today.
During the meeting, he pledged to cut the country's carbon emissions by 50-52 percent below 2005 levels by the end of this
decade. This essentially doubles their previous promise.
President Biden has made tackling the climate crisis a main priority and re-joined the Parls agreement on his first day
in office.
What did Biden say?
President Biden wants the US to be a global leader on fighting climate change. It comes after President Trump pulled the
country out of the Paris climate agreement during his time in office.
The Paris agreement happened in 2015. It was a huge international deal to do something about climate change and was
agreed by leaders from 195 countries at a big meeting in Paris, France.
The Americans hope that their ambitious new plan will encourage China, India and others to go further before the important
COP26 meeting, hosted by the UK in November.
COP26 will take place in Glasgow and is seen as a crucial climate meeting for keeping the planet's temperature rise under
1.5C above pre industrial levels.
When announcing the new emissions goal, Mr Biden said: "The cost of inaction keeps mounting. The United States isn't
waiting. We are resolving to take action.
"We have to step up," he said.
Nathaniel Keohane from the US Environmental Defense Fund said: "By announcing a bold target of cutting emissions 50-52
percent below 2005 by the end of the decade, President Biden has met the moment and the urgency that the climate crisis