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WASHINGTON/ABU DHABI - U.S. President Joe Biden is unlikely to attend a gathering of world leaders in November focused on climate change, according to two U.S. officials and another person briefed on the event's planning.
Biden aides are balancing demands for the president's time amid a Middle East war and a showdown with a Republican-controlled House of Representatives over federal spending, as well as ahead of a presidential campaign season that aides expect to heat up in January. The event would also allow Biden a chance to connect in person with Arab and other world leaders to discuss the war in Gaza after a planned summit this month in Jordan was canceled. Last year Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Jordan's King Abdullah II, and France's President Emmanuel Macron were among the attendees.