Joe Biden’s summit wraps up with energised climate agenda

Joe Biden’s summit wraps up with energised climate agenda

President Joe Biden on Friday wrapped up a two-day climate change summit that yielded new emissions-cut pledges from the US, Canada, Japan and others, as well as the launch of an agricultural initiative from the UAE.

Mr Biden called the meeting with 40 world leaders to declare the US back at the climate leadership table after his predecessor, Donald Trump, pulled out of the 2015 Paris agreement to curb the release of planet-heating gases and loosened emissions rules.

The Democratic president, who returned the US to the Paris deal, unveiled a US target to cut emissions by 50-52 per cent by 2030 compared with