President Biden’s Leadership to Tackle the Climate Crisis at Home
With the goals to to enhance global ambition to accelerate growth of the clean energy economy, avert the most catastrophic impacts of climate change and help lower- and middle- income countries build resilience to climate impacts, the United States will work will partners to achieve this.
According to The White House, at COP27 and beyond, the United States will encourage countries – particularly major economies – and the private sector to not only implement existing commitments and goals, but to also enhance commitments and goals to help close the gap between current pledges and what the latest science tells us is urgently needed. And the United States will also encourage the international community to accelerate vulnerable countries’ ability to implement adaptation efforts. Through the President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience, PREPARE, the United States is rapidly increasing its support of adaptation and resilience programming to help more than half a billion people in developing countries adapt to and manage the impacts of climate change.