U.S. back with ‘guns blazing’ on climate issue – U.S. Treasury adviser – Reuters

U.S. back with ‘guns blazing’ on climate issue – U.S. Treasury adviser – Reuters

ROME, Oct 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury's top climate adviser said that renewed U.S. engagement on climate change under President Joe Biden has helped put the issue at the top of the Group of 20 agenda and is galvanizing fresh commitments to reduce emissions to net zero.

Climate change will feature prominently in this weekend's G20 summit in Rome, said John Morton, a former private equity adviser and Treasury's first climate counselor. He also forecast a spate of new commitments from countries and the private sector ahead of the COP26 U.N. climate conference that starts on Monday in Glasgow.

"That's an indication of the seriousness with which the global community is now taking climate change," he told Reuters in an interview on Friday. "And obviously, this administration has come back in guns blazing on the issue in really important ways."