Former President Barack Obama will travel to Glasgow next month for a UN climate summit and will meet with young activists and deliver remarks putting the threat of the climate crisis into broader context, an Obama spokeswoman tells CNN.
"He will lay out the important progress made in the five years since the Paris Agreement took effect, highlight the leadership of young people around the globe, and urge more robust action going forward by all of us - governments, the private sector, philanthropy, and civil society," Hannah Hankins said in a statement.
Biden reentered the Paris agreement after former President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of it. Read MoreObama championed addressing environmental issues while in office, but Trump -- a longtime climate crisis denier -- attempted to remove many of the policy guardrails installed by the Obama administration to limit the emissions of greenhouse gases.
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