US President Joe Biden on Saturday hailed the COP29 agreement as an “important step” in the fight against global warming, and pledged that America would continue its action despite the climate skeptic attitude of his successor. , Donald Trump.
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“Although we still have a lot of work to do to achieve our climate goals, today’s result allows us to take a big step forward,” Joe Biden responded in a press release.
After two weeks of heated negotiations, countries from around the world meeting in Baku on Sunday approved an agreement providing at least $300 billion in annual funding from developed countries for developing countries, which demanded much more to combat climate change.
The President of the United States welcomed an “ambitious” objective, where, for example, the head of the African group’s negotiators, Ali Mohamed, regretted a financial commitment that was “too weak” and “too late”.
COP29 opened shortly after the election of Republican Donald Trump to a new presidential term in the United States, which could give him the opportunity to unravel the policies put in place by the current number one Democrat.
Joe Biden, who will leave the White House on January 20, said he was “confident” that the United States “will continue this work: in our states and our cities, by our businesses and our citizens, with the support of texts such as the Inflation Reduction Act”, its major energy transition plan.
“If some seek to deny or delay the clean energy revolution that is underway in America and around the world, no one can undo it – no one,” Mr. Biden said, in what appears to be an allusion to Donald Trump.
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