President Joe Biden vowed Friday at a climate convention in Egypt that the United States would do its part to avert a “climate hell,” a reference to U. N. Secretary-General António Guterres’ dire warning that “we are on the road to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator. “On Monday, Guterres told world leaders that the Earth was approaching “tipping problems that will make climate chaos irreversible. “
Biden praised U. S. climate efforts. He said with “confidence” that the U. S. is not going to be able to do so. The U. S. will meet its emissions targets through 2030.
“We are demonstrating that climate policy is economic policy,” Mr. Biden said at the United Nations climate conference, known as COP27. “It is a forged foundation for sustainable, resilient and inclusive economic expansion that drives progress in the personal sector, that drives progress around the world. “
Biden’s presence at the rally in the hotel city of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, is the first round-the-world prevention that will also take him to an assembly of Southeast Asian leaders in Cambodia and a 20th summit of the organization of leaders of the world’s largest economies in Bali. in Indonesia.
Biden pointed to Russia’s war on Ukraine as an explanation for why they want to diversify away from fossil fuels and as an impetus for the nations of the world to unite.
“In this context, it is more pressing than ever to double down on our climate commitments,” Biden said. “Russia’s war only reinforces the urgency of the desire to get the world out of its dependence on fossil fuels. True energy security means that each and every country means that each and every country enjoys blank and varied power in the long run. No action, no action, can be taken without a country understanding that it can use power as a weapon and take the global economy hostage. . And so, this collection will have to be the moment to re-engage our long road and our common ability to write a bigger story for the world.
Upon his arrival in Egypt, Biden met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Through an interpreter, al-Sisi welcomed Mr. Biden and said that since the American media was present, he sought to communicate about the general problems in the Middle East. At the “center of the debate” are human rights, al-Sisi said, saying Egyptians have followed a “comprehensive approach” to human rights with the status quo of a national human rights academy.
Biden thanked the Egyptian president for his cooperation on the climate update and for the summit. Biden also thanked El-Sisi for Egypt’s “strong” position at the United Nations in relation to Russia’s war in Ukraine. Biden said the two leaders will talk about human rights.
U. S. President The U. S. came to Egypt driven by a stronger-than-expected performance through the Democratic Party in Tuesday’s midterm elections, the approval in Congress this year of climate investment in U. S. history. The US and the Russian military’s setbacks on the battlefield of Ukraine.
At the climate conference, Biden is discussing yet another new rule Friday that will crack down on methane emissions, a move that extends to regulations his management issued last year.
The 2021 rule targeted emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse fuel that contributes particularly to global warming, from existing oil and fuel wells across the country, rather than focusing only on new wells as previous Environmental Protection Agency regulations have done. But this year’s rule goes further. It covers all drilling sites, adding small wells that emit less than 3 tons (2. 7 metric tons) of methane consistent with the year.
He also highlighted one of his major national successes: the Democrats’ climate replacement and health care law known as the Inflation Reduction Act.
The commitment to EE. UU. de about $375 billion over a decade to combat climate change gives Biden more leverage to pressure other countries to meet their greenhouse gas emissions pledges and move the global economy toward cleaner energy sources.
The president will be in a very different position than last year’s meeting, which took place in an unfortunate era in the bill’s tortuous passage process.
This summit resulted in new commitments to meet the temperature targets agreed in the Paris Climate Agreement, which Biden joined after his predecessor, Donald Trump, withdrew the United States from the agreement.
In his remarks, Biden also called on all primary emitting countries to “align their ambition” with the foreign purpose of trying to restrict long-term global warming to 1. 5 degrees Celsius (2. 7 degrees Fahrenheit), according to the White House.
But even with those renewed efforts, the United States and the rest of the world still have much to do to reach the levels of emissions that scientists hope global warming will entail. And the political will for more investment, as the global economy faces new headwinds, is fading.
Speaking at the COP27 summit on Wednesday, climate activist and former Vice President Al Gore called Biden a “climate hero in my book,” adding that “the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act represents the highest pro-climate law ever passed by any country. “Nation in all history. “
Biden said the U. S. supports the Global Shield, a foreign effort for the poorest countries of “climate-related losses” and “climate-related damage. “Rich countries like the United States, the first polluter of antiquity, to pay what are necessarily reparations for the damage caused to deficient and vulnerable countries that do not emit much heat-trapping carbon dioxide.
In the past, the United States has even opposed talking about the issue, but has now softened its position, accepting the issue under discussion. Special envoy John Kerry has even discussed it in speeches. However, the United States does not need accountability to be a component of a deal and when it comes to paying, Congress and the public have been reluctant to approve many types of climate aid, and this is the most debatable type.
“I would like the U. S. to do so. “The U. S. government would say something constructive about loss and damage” because it could move an important issue, said Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of climate and global affairs at Princeton University.
The global eagerness to move away from fossil fuels moderated through turmoil in global energy markets after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. At home and abroad, Biden urges oil and fuel manufacturers to increase production to meet demand and reduce costs that have funded the Kremlin. war effort.
Customers for significant advancement are even weaker, as major emitters such as China and India send less experienced delegations. Biden’s management officials sought to lower expectations of effects at the meeting and framed it as a return to U. S. leadership. The U. S. government is on the subject.
Biden leaves Washington with the votes still counted in key races that will determine control of either house of Congress. However, the president felt the wind behind him as Democrats performed better than expected. it will have a huge impact on your ability to get things done in Washington while abroad.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry told The Associated Press on Thursday that he understands Shouk. Biden’s visit to Sharm el-Sheikh as “an indication of the political will to move the procedure forward” to combat warming.
“We wait, Array. . . that resonates in the collective will of the negotiating teams of which the United States is a part, but also in creating momentum for the conference, for the parties to deliver what is expected,” he said.
National security adviser Jake Sullivan said the president and other top officials would also advocate for the release of jailed Egyptian pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah, whose circle of relatives said they were informed through penal officials that he would undergo indefinite medical surgery amid a famine. strike. which gained momentum on Sunday.
After his brief stint in Egypt, the president will travel to Cambodia to attend an Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit on U. S. engagement in the region in the face of China’s growing assertiveness.
And then, in Indonesia, the president is about to hold his first assembly as president with newly empowered Chinese President Xi Jinping, who secured a third five-year term as head of the Chinese Communist Party at the party’s national congress. Last month amid tensions. relations between the United States and China.
The White House has been meeting with Chinese officials in recent weeks to arrange the meeting. Biden told reporters Wednesday that he intends to talk to Xi about emerging tensions between Washington and Beijing over the self-governing island of Taiwan, industrial policies and Beijing’s relations with Russia. and so on.
“What I need to do with him when we communicate is to draw each of our red lines and perceive what he believes is of China’s critical national interest, which I know is the critical interest of the United States,” he said. Biden. ” And whether or not they are in conflict with each other. “
Biden will also try to show that the world will stand up to Russia over its invasion of Ukraine and meet with two key new partners in the effort to help Ukraine’s defense: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. President Vladimir Putin announced Thursday that he was skipping rallies, avoiding a potentially awkward encounter. Sullivan said the president had no plans to interact with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who is in Putin’s place.
In Cambodia, Biden will also discuss North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile systems at a trilateral assembly with the leaders of South Korea and Japan.