Last month, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said the Earth's average global temperature will reach 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels around 2030, a decade earlier than projected three years ago.
US President Joe Biden on Friday announced a bid with the European Union to lead slashing of methane gas emissions ahead of a UN climate change summit where he urged the world to show "highest" ambition.
Biden called the goal "ambitious but realistic," urging countries to commit at the COP26 summit organized by the United Nations in Glasgow, Scotland in November.Biden said the United States was taking concrete steps toward UN climate goals but noted that recent devastating flooding in the US northeast and wildfires in western states echoed extreme weather events from China to the Amazon.
"We have to bring to Glasgow our highest ambitions. Those who have not yet done so, time is running out," he warned.
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