President Joe Biden international efforts towards reducing the climate-wrecked emissions of fossil fuel, including rival Vladimir Putin from Russia and Xi Jinping from China among the inviting parties to his government's first major climate talks.
The session will examine Biden's commitment to prioritize climate change among overlapping environmental, technological, political and pandemic issues.
U.S. officials and several others are offering some credit for setting the framework for the Paris Accord to the main economic talks of the Obama administration. During those negotiations, the United States and almost 200 other governments each set their fossil-fuel emission mitigation priorities and dedicated themselves to tracking and reporting their emissions. Another official of Biden's administration confirmed that the US also decides how far the government can go to meet a more aggressive U.S. pollution goal.
In the run-up to the global climate negotiations in Glasgow in November, it will also inspire other world leaders to use it as a forum to announce stronger goals or more promises for their own nations.
The international opening of Biden's climate negotiations, particularly his approach to China, was widely welcomed by climate scientists and climate policy experts. Biden committed $2,000 billion in investment to turn the US into a zero-emission economy by 2050. During early, one-on-one talks with world leaders Biden and other administrative officials emphasized US climate intentions, while Biden Climate Envoy, John Kerry, concentrated on foreign diplomacy in order to stimulate climate action.
In order to turn the US into a zero-emission economy by 2050, Biden pledged $2,000 billion in investments. During the early talks, the US Environment Envoy, John Kerry, focussed on international diplomacy to promote progress on the climate, emphasized Biden and other administrative officials on global warming intentions.
This relates to economics reason being that industries for renewable energy will boom. This will hopefully lead to innovation. More regulations may come up against the use of fossil fuels.
Questions to consider:
Do you think Biden’s doing enough to create his goal of a “zero-emission” economy?
How will zero-emission affect our economy?
How do you think other leaders in the world will be inspired to Biden’s zero-emission efforts?
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-03-27/biden-invites-russia-china-to-first-global-climate-talks
4 comments:
I think Biden is off to a good start to reach his goal of a zero emissions economy by reaching out to other countries and leaders/organizations to get more intel, support, and research about climate change. I think other leaders will be influenced by Biden's efforts on trying to get more information on how to make this zero emissions economy possible. I think this will heavily reduce the amount of emissions used, and help stop climate change from happening.
Biden's efforts to make a dent in the growing issue of climate change are incredibly important. Climate change is already causing a great deal of damage around the world, and immediate action is necessary to curb the short-term and long-term impacts of the damage being done to the environment. While many push for reaching a net-zero emissions economy before 2050, it is important to consider the limitations of current technology as well as the politics involved in getting legislation passed. I for one support efforts to get as much done as possible as soon as possible, but it takes time and effort to both influence others and implement policies.
Reaching out to countries such as Russia and China, with whom relations are not the best, is important if significant changes are to be made. Along with the United States, Russia and China are among the top contributors to global pollution and greenhouse gases. As such, working together to search for realistic, effective, and practical policies and ideas would be far more effective in terms of causing real change.
In a vacuum, pledging two billion towards climate change investment seems great. Having all these talks, invites, Paris Accord discussions and resolutions, seems great. However, 2 billion is practically nothing considering the vastness of our own budget, the world's climate change problems, and the world's pollution in adding to it. This measly 2 billion seems more like a political media reach than anything else; if Biden truly cares about the environment, he'll have a hard-line foreign policy/diplomacy on making these others countries keep up their share of the responsibilities. As I said, all these Paris Accord plans are great De Juro, but when only the U.S. and some tiny countries actually put in effort to reach De Juro zero emissions, they're pointless. More, we're just paying a bunch of politicians to talk and not act. It's obvious that the U.S. cannot tackle the environment on it's own; we can't pledge all of our money and destroy our economy in a one-sided, police effort to save the environment. That's more good-cop, but we need Biden to actually be bad-cop, aggressive, pressuring, to make these corrupt or simply lazy other countries (who love the media praise in agreeing towards agreements yet not the cost of following through on them) put forth their resources to save the world. I'm not convinced Biden will do this, however, because "inviting" Russia and China to talks in the hope of "inspiring" them is futile and even stupid if he believes that they will meaningfully change their contributions as a result. Sometimes the international policeman can't do everything on his own--he needs to force the community to follow laws and help keep the world safer.
I agree with Danny, I think 2 billion is practically nothing considering the US is budget and this practically makes nothing short of a dent into problems surrounding climate change. I agree with anything that this could be just for show, in order to satisfy the political media, and to make it look like he’s doing so much for the environment. In order to actually make a change, Biden has to be stricter and more aggressive with the responsibility of helping the environment and climate change. He can’t be a pushover and just do his part, he has to demand for other countries to do their part. He can't beat around the bush, but he has to be straight to the point. I'm not saying that the US has to hand over all their money, but pay a heavy sum in order to show that Biden is serious in his efforts in improving the planet's environmental problems.
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