On Monday, President Joe Biden offered an apology to his fellow leaders at the global climate summit COP26 for Donald Trump’s decision to pull the United States from the Paris Climate Accord.
Biden stated that while he shouldn’t apologize, he did apologize for the fact that the United States pulled us out from the Paris accord in the last administration and put us kind of behind the eight ball. He spoke in a small group with leaders such as Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the UK.
Biden also announced the new PREPARE initiative, which will create an early warning system regarding climate change and expand renewable energy sources.
He also promised to help other countries financially in the financing of climate change. He argued that nations who have caused the most environmental damage should be paid more.
He stated that the United States had an obligation to finance other countries that have not had the chance to do as much damage to their country as they have.
Biden stated that “those of us who are responsible of much of the deforestation, and all of our problems so far,” have ‘overwhelming responsibilities’ to the poorer countries that account for a small amount of the global emissions but are paying a higher price as the planet heats up.

To his fellow world leaders, President Joe Biden offered an apology for Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord.

Donald Trump pulled the USA out of the Paris Climate Accord, June 2017.
Biden signed papers allowing the United States to join the Paris Climate Accord on his first day as president after Trump pulled the country out of the agreement in June 2017.
It was part of a set of actions he took on environment to counter Trump’s environmental activism. These included revoking a critical cross-border presidential permiss needed to finish Keystone XL pipeline – a move that ended the controversial $8B pipeline – and creating a climate czar post that is held by John Kerry.
Biden arrived in Scotland Monday morning, just days after the G20 summit. He met with his fellow leaders from around the world to discuss ways to achieve the Paris Climate Accord goals, including lowering the temperature by 1.5 degrees.
In a change of tone from his predecessor in the Oval Office, Biden acknowledged that the U.S. bore much of the responsibility for climate change. Trump denied climate change existed.
Biden spoke out ahead of COP26 to praise the power of America showing up’
He said that he saw again in Rome the power of America showing itself and working with our allies and partner to make progress in issues that are important to us all. He also stated that allies needed ‘American leadership’ in order to get things done.
He claimed that other leaders sought him as he answered a question about his ability to lead amid falling poll numbers at home.
Biden stated, “The United States of America, is the most crucial part of this agenda, and it was done,”
Skeptics argue that few concrete measures were reached to reduce the world’s temperature increase to 1.5 C above its pre-industrial level. This was the goal set at the 2015 Paris climate summit.
Biden’s Build Back Better agenda included key clean energy pledges. This was the price he paid to win over his own party members at its enormous $3.5 trillion cost.
The Supreme Court could still strip his administration of additional powers to limit emissions.

At COP26, President Joe Biden meets with Boris Johnson, the UK Prime Minister.

President Biden’s motorcade passed through the Central Belt of Scotland on Monday, starting at Edinburgh Airport and ending at Glasgow.
Then there is the awkward issue of his travel arrangements.
His trip to Europe is expected to release 2.2 Million Pounds of carbon.
The enormous carbon footprint includes 2.16 million pounds carbon dioxide from the four large planes that made up his airborne entourage during the trip to Italy, Scotland, and where the president will speak at COP26 in Glasgow. The remainder is emitted by Biden’s cars.
His fleet includes the heavily modified Boeing 747, which he calls Air Force One when he is on board, an identical decoy and two massive C-17 Globemaster planes that carry his battalion.
His officials often spoke up the power and influence of the US leadership before the summit.
Jake Sullivan, a passenger on Air Force One en route from Washington to Edinburgh on Monday morning, said that “The US is stepping forward to do its part key.”
Allies Japan, Korea and Canada are taking action to help their fellow Americans.
“And now, the question is: Will some other countries step up and do theirs?”
In a briefing with reporters, Gina McCarthy, Biden’s climate advisor, echoed the sentiment.
He stated that the president and dozens of cabinet members who will be in Glasgow over two weeks will send a message to the public: the United States is back at its table, the United States is back, and they are back hoping to rally the world around the climate crisis.
She stated that the U.S. would publish a plan to show it could reduce its carbon emissions by half from 2005 levels by 2023, in order to achieve its net-zero goal of 2050.
She said, “It shows how the U.S. can meet its global climate commitments within three decades by decarbonizing power sector, electrifying transport and buildings, transforming industries, reducing nonCO2 emissions and reinvigorating natural lands.”