Nov 01 Biden apologizes for Trump's exit from Paris climate accord By Associated Press Standing before world leaders gathered in Scotland, Biden sought to portray the enormous costs of limiting carbon emissions as a chance to create jobs by transitioning to renewable energy and electric automobiles. Continue reading
Nov 01 Biden apologizes for Trump administration pulling out of Paris Agreement By Associated Press President Joe Biden offered a public apology to a U.N. climate conference over his predecessor Donald Trump’s move to pull the U.S. from the Paris accord. Continue reading
Nov 01 Biden urges 'decade of ambition and innovation' to preserve future By Bella Isaacs-Thomas President Joe Biden emphasized the quickly closing window of opportunity to address global warming -- and the mounting costs of delaying that action -- in his opening remarks at COP26. Continue reading
Nov 01 WATCH LIVE: Biden speaks at COP26 climate summit By Associated Press President Joe Biden is expected to speak at the summit this morning. Before Biden left on his trip to Europe, Democrats in Washington announced that they are one step closer to agreement on a sweeping budget proposal that also… Continue reading
Nov 01 WATCH: Biden speaks at COP26 climate summit in Glasgow By Isabella Isaacs-Thomas and Seth Borenstein, Associated Press Scores of world leaders will traipse to the podium Monday and Tuesday at crucial international climate talks in Scotland and talk about what their country is going to do about the threat of global warming. Continue reading
Oct 31 Watch 3:44 World leaders head to Glasgow for COP26 as G20 wraps up By PBS NewsHour World leaders made a climate pledge on coal and recognized the importance of reaching carbon neutrality ‘by or around mid-century’ on the final day of the G20 summit in Rome. Meanwhile, the United Nations’ climate summit COP26 officially began in… Continue watching
Oct 31 US, EU say deal on steel tariffs will help on climate change By Zeke Miller, Josh Boak, Associated Press The deal resolving the trade dispute would address the excess capacity that can distort the steel market and create a framework for reducing the carbon-intensity of steel and aluminum production that contributes to the warming of the earth. Continue reading
Oct 30 US, EU reach agreement to settle rift over Trump-era tariffs By Zeke Miller, Josh Boak, Associated Press The U.S. and European Union have reached an agreement to settle their diplomatic rift over Trump-era steel and aluminum tariffs, the White House announced Saturday, as President Joe Biden is in Rome attending the Group of 20 summit. Continue reading
Oct 29 Biden tells Macron U.S. was 'clumsy' in Australia submarine deal By Sylvie Corbet, Zeke Miller, Associated Press President Joe Biden has told French President Emmanuel Macron that America was "clumsy" in its orchestration of a secret U.S.-British submarine deal with Australia. Continue reading
Oct 28 WATCH: Biden gives remarks on legislative agenda, infrastructure and climate change proposal By Lisa Mascaro, Aamer Madhani, Alan Fram, Associated Press President Joe Biden declared Thursday he has reached a “historic economic framework” with Democrats in Congress on his sweeping domestic policy package, a hard-fought yet dramatically scaled-back deal announced just before he departs for overseas summits. Continue reading