US President Joe Biden has invited 40 world leaders, together with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to the Leaders’ Summit on Climate to underscore the urgency and the financial advantages of stronger local weather motion, the White House mentioned.
The two-day summit might be held just about on April 22-23 and might be telecasted reside for public viewing.
“It will be a key milestone on the road to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) this November in Glasgow,” the White House mentioned on Friday.
Besides Modi, different leaders invited for the summit embrace Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Saudi Arabia King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Bhutanese Prime Minister Lotay Tshering are the opposite two leaders from South Asia to be invited for the two-day mega convention on local weather change.
The White House mentioned a key goal of each the Leaders’ Summit and the COP26 might be to catalyse efforts to maintain limiting warming 1.5 diploma Celsius’ purpose inside attain. The summit will even spotlight examples of how enhanced local weather ambition will create good paying jobs, advance modern applied sciences and assist susceptible international locations adapt to local weather impacts, it added.
By the time of the summit, the United States will announce an bold 2030 emissions goal as its new Nationally Determined Contribution beneath the Paris Agreement, the White House mentioned.
In his invitation, Biden urged leaders to make use of the summit as a possibility to stipulate how their international locations additionally will contribute to stronger local weather ambition, it mentioned.
The summit will reconvene the US-led Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, which brings collectively 17 international locations chargeable for roughly 80 % of world emissions and international GDP.
Biden additionally invited the heads of different international locations which can be demonstrating sturdy local weather management, are particularly susceptible to local weather impacts, or are charting modern pathways to a net-zero financial system. A small variety of enterprise and civil society leaders will even take part within the summit, the White House mentioned.
Key themes of the summit will embrace galvanising efforts by the world’s main economies to cut back emissions throughout this crucial decade to maintain a restrict to warming of 1.5 diploma Celsius inside attain and mobilising private and non-private sector finance to drive the net-zero transition and to assist susceptible international locations deal with local weather impacts, it mentioned.
The summit will even look into the financial advantages of local weather motion, with a powerful emphasis on job creation, and the significance of making certain all communities and employees profit from the transition to a brand new clear vitality financial system and spurring transformational applied sciences that may assist scale back emissions and adapt to local weather change, whereas additionally creating huge new financial alternatives and constructing the industries of the long run, the White House mentioned.
Among different key points embrace showcasing sub-national and non-state actors which can be dedicated to inexperienced restoration and an equitable imaginative and prescient for limiting warming to 1.5 levels Celsius, and are working carefully with nationwide governments to advance ambition and resilience, it mentioned.
The two-day summit will even talk about alternatives to strengthen capability to guard lives and livelihoods from the impacts of local weather change, deal with the worldwide safety challenges posed by local weather change and the impression on readiness, and deal with the position of nature-based options in attaining net-zero by 2050 targets, the White House mentioned.
