President Joe Biden encouraged world leaders to strengthen their fight against global warming even as the war in Ukraine complicates action, insisting that “climate security and energy security go hand in hand.”
“We cannot let the critical goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius slip out of our reach,” Biden said Friday during a virtual summit with representatives of top-emitting countries and the European Union.
The session is the largest planned gathering of world leaders focused on climate action ahead of a critical United Nations summit in Egypt this November. It comes as record gasoline prices and war-strained energy supplies stoke calls for more fossil fuel development, potentially slowing progress in paring the greenhouse gas emissions that drive global warming.
