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US climate summit: Singapore, India and Poland accept Biden’s invitation
- US president’s Leaders Summit on Climate is set to start on April 22, but 32 of the 40 heads of state invited have yet to say if they’ll be taking part
- Beijing said earlier it was ‘studying’ the invitation it received more than a week ago
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With less than three weeks to go until Joe Biden’s Leaders Summit on Climate, just eight of the 40 heads of state invited to take part in the online event have so far accepted.
The two-day summit is set to start on April 22 – Earth Day – which marks the fifth anniversary of the signing of the Paris Agreement. The White House said earlier that by the time of the event, the US would have announced an ambitious 2030 emissions target.
In his invitation, Biden “urged leaders to use the summit as an opportunity to outline how their countries also will contribute to stronger climate ambition”, it said.
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The summit would also reconvene the US-led Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, which brings together 17 countries responsible for about 80 per cent of global emissions and global GDP, it said.
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Among the invitees is Chinese President Xi Jinping, but Beijing has yet to say whether he will be taking part. Foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on Thursday that China had received the invitation and was “carefully studying it”.
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