MEA said PM Modi has accepted Joe Biden’s invitation for the climate change summit. Summit is scheduled to take place virtually on April 22 and April 23.
Arindam Bagchi on April 2 said PM Modi has accepted the invitation of US President for the Climate Summit.
Bagchi informed, PM Modi has welcomed the initiative and is looking forward to attending the virtual summit.
He added, US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, John Kerry will be visiting New Delhi from April 5 to April 8.
However, this will be Modi’s 2nd interaction with Biden after two shared the stage during the first Quad leader’s summit.
PMs of Bangladesh and Bhutan has been also invitees from the regions to the Climate Summit.
Other invitees are Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Saudi Arabia King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
The summit will reconvene the US-led Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, which brings together 17 countries responsible for approximately 80 per cent of global emissions and global GDP.
On the campaign trail, Biden made climate change a central issue, setting a goal of ensuring that the US achieves net-zero emissions by 2050.
Biden has signed several executive actions his first week in office related to the climate crisis, including one directing the secretary of the Interior to pause on entering into new oil and natural gas leases on public lands or offshore waters.
Key themes of summit will include galvanising efforts by the world’s major economies to reduce emissions during this critical decade to keep a limit to warming of 1.5 degree Celsius within reach and mobilising public and private sector finance to drive the net-zero transition and to help vulnerable countries cope with climate impacts, it said.
