President Joe Biden lectured the world on reducing emissions Monday at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, where 400 VIP private jets convened the globe’s elite.
“This is a decisive decade in which we can have an opportunity to prove ourselves,” Biden said, while gas-powered engines idled outside for guests. “That’s what COP26 is all about.”
Biden demanded the world dramatically reduce emissions to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, which includes staving off a 1.5 degree Celsius rise in global temperatures. The planet has already warmed 1.1 degrees Celsius since the Little Ice Age century of the 1800s.
In order to meet the United States’s own emissions targets by 2030, Biden pledged passage of sweeping climate legislation that is struggling to garner enough votes on Capitol Hill. --->READ MORE HERE
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China’s state-run newspaper Global Times mocked President Joe Biden on Tuesday for eliciting “ridicule” by apologizing for America at the United Nations COP26 climate summit this week.
Biden told journalists he was sorry that, under his predecessor Donald Trump, the United States had abandoned the Paris Climate Accords. Trump withdrew on the grounds that it imposed onerous demands on the United States while providing for other large countries – most notably the world’s worst polluter, China – to increase greenhouse gas emissions for nearly a decade.
As of 2020, only one country, India, was keeping its Paris Agreement promises, according to a study by the international group Climate Transparency.
Biden has made few positive headlines during his COP26 stint, at one point even appearing to fall asleep during an event. He more recently used his platform to criticize the Chinese Communist Party for not sending dictator Xi Jinping to the event, arguing the move would cause China to lose influence on the world stage.
“I guess I shouldn’t apologize,” Biden told those assembled at the conference on Monday, “but I do apologize for the fact that the United States in the last administration pulled out of the Paris Accords and put us sort of behind the eight ball a little bit.”
“The United States is not only back at the table but hopefully leading by the power of example. I know that hasn’t been the case and that’s why my administration is working overtime,” he added.
A column in the Global Times, typically one of China’s most belligerent government propaganda outlets, sarcastically called Biden’s apology “noble” and asserted that the remark proves the United States, and Biden in particular, are “powerless.” --->READ MORE HEREFollow link below to a related story:
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