Climate goals: Biden expresses urgency

Washington, Dec. 1: Joe Biden has expressed a clear sense of urgency in advancing climate goals as the US President-elect discussed his decision to rejoin the historic Paris Agreement on his first day in office during a meeting on climate policy.

In the virtual meeting with national security and climate policy staff on Monday, Biden reiterated his intention to ensure climate change is a core national security priority, according to a readout issued by the Office of the President-elect. He expressed a clear sense of urgency in advancing his climate goals, it said.

Biden was joined by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris during the meeting to discuss ways to meet the president-elect's wide-ranging and ambitious international climate commitments. The discussions included decision to rejoin Paris Agreement on first day in office, readout stated.

On November 4, the Trump administration formally withdrew from the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change, a decision originally announced three years ago. The Paris accord committed the US and 187 other countries to keeping rising global temperatures below 2C above pre-industrial levels and attempting to limit them even more, to a 1.5C rise. Biden has pledged that his administration would rejoin the historic Paris Agreement on climate change.

Climate change is among the top four priorities of Biden. "President-elect Biden is leading the world to address the climate emergency,” said a policy paper. his the his the