US President Joe Biden has extended an invitation to 40 world leaders - including Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin - to participate in
a virtual summit on climate next Earth Day,
April 22.
"They know they have been invited, although I have not spoken with them yet," Biden acknowledged, without going into more detail about the tense relations with Beijing and Moscow since his arrival at the White House.
The US president - who on February 19 made the return to the Paris Agreement effective - has in any case wanted to recover the ground lost during the Trump Administration with the convening of this virtual meeting that aims to bring together the 17 countries responsible for
80% of CO2 emissions.
Biden has already announced the United States' commitment to
neutralize its emissions by 2050
and will present its "nationally determined commitment" for the next decade before then.
"The summit will serve to highlight examples of how greater climate ambition can serve to create better jobs and more advanced technologies, and to help countries most vulnerable to climate change adapt to the impacts," read the statement from the White House.
The virtual meeting, due to the restrictions of the pandemic, also aims to pave the way to COP26 in Glasgow, which is held in November.
The special envoy of the climate John Kerry will begin next week
a tour by European countries
to gather support.
At the last virtual climate summit held in December, on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement, UN Secretary General António Guterres warned that current commitments
"are far from sufficient"
and that the world is moving "towards an increase of the temperature of more than three degrees at the end of the century if there is no change of course ".
Guterres also made a global call to prepare the most vulnerable countries for extreme weather episodes: "Adaptation cannot be left out of the equation."
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