2021 Leaders Summit on Climate

2021 Leaders Summit on Climate
Leaders Summit on Climate Logo.jpg
Host country United States
DatesApril 22–23, 2021
Venue(s)Virtual
Participants38 nations
Websitewww.state.gov/leaders-summit-on-climate/

The 2021 Leaders' Summit on Climate was a virtual climate summit on April 22–23, 2021, organized by the Joe Biden administration, with leaders from various countries. At the summit Biden announced that greenhouse gas emissions by the United States would be reduced by 50% - 52% relative to the level of 2005 by 2030. Overall, the commitments made at the summit reduce the gap between governments' current pledges and the 1.5 degrees target of the Paris Agreement by 12% - 14%. If the pledges are accomplished, greenhouse gas emissions will fall by 2.6% - 3.7% more in comparison to the pledges before the summit. The results of the summit were described by Climate Action Tracker as a step forward in the fight against climate change.

Invited countries and their representatives

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the Leaders Summit on Climate (April 2021)
Invited countries Representative
 South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa
 Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel
 Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne
 Saudi Arabia King Salman of Saudi Arabia
 Argentina President Alberto Fernández
 Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison
 Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
 Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro
 Bhutan Prime Minister Lotay Tshering
 Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
 Chile President Sebastián Piñera
 China President Xi Jinping
 Colombia President Iván Duque Márquez
 South Korea President Moon Jae-in
 Denmark Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen
 United Arab Emirates President Khalifa bin Zayed al Nahyan
 Spain Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez
 France President Emmanuel Macron
 Gabon President Ali Bongo Ondimba
 India Prime Minister Narendra Modi
 Indonesia President Joko Widodo
 Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
 Italy Prime Minister Mario Draghi
 Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness
 Japan Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga
 Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador
 Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari
 Norway Prime Minister Erna Solberg
 New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
 Poland President Andrzej Duda
 Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta
 United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson
 Marshall Islands President David Kabua
 Democratic Republic of the Congo President Félix Tshisekedi
 Russia President Vladimir Putin
 Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
 Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
 Vietnam General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng

Results

At the summit Biden announced that greenhouse gas emissions by the United States would be reduced by 50% - 52% relative to the level of 2005 by 2030. Overall, the commitments made at the summit reduce the gap between governments' current pledges and the 1.5 degrees target of the Paris Agreement by 12% - 14%. If the pledges are accomplished, greenhouse gas emissions will fall by 2.6% - 3.7% GtCO2e[quantify] more in comparison to the pledges before the summit. The results of the summit were described by Climate Action Tracker as a step forward in the fight against climate change, even though there is still a long way to go to reach the 1.5 degrees target. The most important commitments were made by United States, United Kingdom, European Union, China and Japan. At the summit the Biden administration submitted a new Nationally Determined Contribution to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), according to Climate Action Tracker "the biggest climate step made by any US government in history".

At the summit Biden's administration launched a number of coalitions and initiatives to limit climate change and help to reduce its impacts, among others a Global Climate Ambition Initiative to help low income countries achieve those targets, and a "Net-Zero Producers Forum, with Canada, Norway, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, together representing 40% of global oil and gas production"

Several countries increased their climate pledges in the summit. Several countries deliver vague promises, and statements:

Main commitments and statements made in the summit
Country Commitments/Statements
 United States Pledged to reduce its emissions by 50% - 52% by the year 2030 relative to the level of 2005.
 Brazil Pledged to end deforestation by the year 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality by the year 2050. Presented an action plan to "move quickly towards reversing deforestation," in 12 months if necessary resources will be given
 Japan Pledged to reduce emissions by 46% by the year 2030 compared to the level of 2013 (instead of 26% before) and achieve net - zero emissions by the year 2050.
 Canada Pledged to reduce emissions by 40% - 45% by the year 2030 relative to the level of 2005 (instead of 30% before).
 India Reaffirmed its previous target of installing 450 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2030. With the United States created an "India-U.S. Climate and Clean Energy Agenda Partnership for 2030".
 Russia Pledged to reduce significantly its emissions in the next 3 decades, called for a global reduction in methane emissions.
 China Reaffirmed its pledges to peak its emissions by 2030 and reach carbon neutrality by 2060. Agreed to cooperate with the US in climate issues. Pledged to strictly control its coal burning by the year 2025 and reduce it from 2026.
 South Korea Pledged to stop financing coal related projects abroad.
 United Kingdom Pledged to reduce emissions by 78% by 2035
 European Union Announced the embedment in law of a target of reducing emissions by at least 55% by 2030 and by 100% by 2050

In the beginning of May, 2021, Climate Action Tracker released a more detailed report about the significance of the summit. According to the report the summit, together with the pledges made from September 2020, reduce the expected rise in temperature by 2100 by 0.2 degrees. If all pledges are fulfilled the temperature will rise by 2.4°C. However, if the policies will remain as they are now it will rise by 2.9°C. In the most optimistic scenario, if the countries will fulfill also the pledges that are not part of Paris agreement it will rise by 2.0°C.

Use of masks

After the summit, there were claims spread that Joe Biden was the only leader there wearing a mask, which was later proved was wrong as at least 5 other world leaders were wearing masks.


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