President Joe Biden Invites Buhari, 39 Other World Leaders For Climate Change Summit

U.S. President Joe Biden has invited President Muhammadu Buhari and 39 other world leaders to a virtual summit to galvanise efforts in tackling the climate crisis.

The two-day summit is expected to mark America’s return to the frontlines of the fight against human-caused climate change, after former President Trump disengaged from the process.

The White House said the summit is scheduled for April 22-23. It hopes that the meeting will help shape, speed up and deepen global efforts to cut climate-wrecking fossil fuel pollution.

“The summit can even spotlight examples of how better climate ambition will create exact-paying jobs, advance revolutionary technology, and help vulnerable countries adapt to weather influences,” the White House stated in a declaration Friday.

The U.S. Is also anticipated to announce “an formidable 2030 emissions target.”

Mr Biden invited leaders of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, which brings together 17 countries accountable for about 80 according to cent of global emissions and worldwide GDP in addition to heads of other international locations that are in particular “liable to weather affects” or demonstrating “robust weather leadership.”

A small variety of business and civil society leaders will also take part in the Summit.

Major World leaders invited consist of US competitors Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to the summit.

Others are Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.