The 2-day summit shall be held from April 22 to 23. (File)
Washington:
US President Joe Biden has invited 40 world leaders, together with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to the Leaders’ Summit on Local weather to underscore the urgency and the financial advantages of stronger local weather motion, the White Home mentioned.
The 2-day summit shall be held nearly on April 22-23 and shall be telecasted stay for public viewing.
“It will likely be a key milestone on the highway to the United Nations Local weather Change Convention (COP26) this November in Glasgow,” the White Home mentioned on Friday.
Apart from Modi, different leaders invited for the summit embody Chinese language 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 Home mentioned a key goal of each the Leaders’ Summit and the COP26 shall be to catalyse efforts to maintain limiting warming 1.5 diploma Celsius” purpose inside attain. The summit can even spotlight examples of how enhanced local weather ambition will create good paying jobs, advance modern applied sciences and assist weak international locations adapt to local weather impacts, it added.
By the point of the summit, the USA will announce an bold 2030 emissions goal as its new Nationally Decided Contribution below the Paris Settlement, the White Home mentioned.
In his invitation, Biden urged leaders to make use of the summit as a chance to stipulate how their international locations additionally will contribute to stronger local weather ambition, it mentioned.
The summit will reconvene the US-led Main Economies Discussion board on Vitality and Local weather, 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 might be demonstrating sturdy local weather management, are particularly weak to local weather impacts, or are charting modern pathways to a net-zero economic system.
A small variety of enterprise and civil society leaders can even take part within the summit, the White Home mentioned.
Key themes of the summit will embody galvanising efforts by the world’s main economies to scale back emissions throughout this essential 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 weak international locations address local weather impacts, it mentioned.
The summit can 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 power economic system and spurring transformational applied sciences that may assist cut back emissions and adapt to local weather change, whereas additionally creating monumental new financial alternatives and constructing the industries of the longer term, the White Home mentioned.
Amongst different key points embody showcasing sub-national and non-state actors which might be dedicated to inexperienced restoration and an equitable imaginative and prescient for limiting warming to 1.5 levels Celsius, and are working intently with nationwide governments to advance ambition and resilience, it mentioned.
The 2-day summit can even focus on alternatives to strengthen capability to guard lives and livelihoods from the impacts of local weather change, handle the worldwide safety challenges posed by local weather change and the influence on readiness, and handle the function of nature-based options in reaching net-zero by 2050 objectives, the White Home mentioned.