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US President Joe Biden has invited his colleagues from China and Russia, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, to a virtual climate summit that he organized in April.
A representative of the US State Department told the AFP news agency in Washington on Friday.
Previously, the news agency only AP reported about it.
With the virtual summit on April 22nd and 23rd, to which around 40 heads of state and government were invited, Biden wants to mark Washington's return to the forefront in the fight against climate change.
With his own summit, Biden also wants to mark Washington's return to the forefront in the fight against climate change.
Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump, had led the United States out of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate protection, thereby making the United States an international outsider in terms of climate policy.
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After his election victory over Trump, Biden had kept his promise and applied for the US to resume as a signatory to the agreement on the day of his inauguration.
Since February 19, the world's largest economy has been participating in the fight against climate change with almost all other countries in the world.
The AP learned from US government circles that the usual allies were deliberately not only invited to the discussion forum.
At the moment the USA has an extremely tense relationship with Russia and China, which have also been invited.
The issue of climate protection is extremely important for the entire world and that is why it must be discussed at the highest level, it said from the White House.