Biden to Climate Talks, 1st Leg of Around-The-World Trip
“It’s a very good sign that President Biden is coming to this COP ,” said German special envoy Jennifer Morgan. “I think it reassures countries, people that the United States at the highest level takes this issue incredibly seriously. And we need that. ”“Joe Biden comes to COP27 and makes new promises but his old promises have not even been fulfilled,” Mohamed Adow, a veteran climate analyst and director of Power Shift Africa, said in an email.
It remained to be seen whether Biden would address the item top of mind at the climate talks: loss and damage. That’s international negotiations language for asking rich countries like the United States, the top historic polluting nation, to pay what are essentially reparations for damages caused to poorer vulnerable nations that don’t emit much heat-trapping carbon dioxide.
Prospects for a significant breakthrough are further dampened as major emitters such as China and India are sending less-senior delegations to the conference. Biden administration officials have tried to lower expectations for results and instead cast the meeting as a return to U.S. leadership on the issue. that will determine control of both chambers of Congress. Still, the president was buoyed as Democrats performed stronger than expected.
“We are very keen on improving this part,” said El-Sisi, who emphasized that Egypt had launched a national strategy on human rights. Biden and other senior officials had also planned to advocate for the release of imprisoned , whose family said they were told by prison officials he was undergoing an undefined medical intervention amid a hunger strike that escalated Sunday.
, recently awarded an unprecedented third, five-year term as the Chinese Communist Party leader during the party’s national congress last month amid increasingly strained U.S.-China relations.
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