World deepen climate goals at Earth Day summit: Current Affairs Special Series

Team Adda247 and BankersAdda are here with a Current Affairs Special Series for SBI and IBPS interview 2021.  In this series, candidates will be introduced to current affairs topics daily, which will not only improve their general awareness but also will ensure that the candidates do not lack if any current affairs topic is asked in the interview. Today’s Current Affairs topic is World deepen climate goals at Earth Day summit.

World deepen climate goals at Earth Day summit

US president Joe Biden has unveiled the goal to cut emissions by 50% to 52% from 2005 levels at the two-day climate summit which is inaugurated on Earth Day and is being attended by 40 countries virtually. 

The United States, the world’s second-leading emitter followed by China, wants to reclaim global leadership in the fight against global warming; former President Donald Trump had withdrawn the country from international efforts to cut emissions. At the white house, Mr. Joe Biden said, “This is the decade we must make decisions that will avoid the worst consequences of the climate crisis.” British Prime Minister Boris Johnson called the new U.S. climate goal “game changing” as two other countries have also made new pledges to climate goals. PM of Japan Mr.Yoshihide Suga has raised Japan’s target for cutting emissions to 46% by 2030, up from 26% after the visit of white house and meeting with Mr.Biden, President of the USA. Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro announced his most ambitious environmental goal yet, saying the country would reach emissions neutrality by 2050, 10 years earlier than the previous goal. Chinese President Xi Jinping said that China expecting its carbon emissions would peak before 2030 and it will achieve net-zero emissions by 2060. Most of the countries do not offer new emissions goals.