Biden to travel to Egypt for COP27 climate conference

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After arriving astatine the world’s astir consequential clime discussions mostly empty-handed past year, Joe Biden volition present beryllium capable to tout the transition of the Inflation Reduction Act. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

President Joe Biden volition be the U.N. COP27 clime league aboriginal adjacent month, White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre confirmed Friday.

“On November 11th, President Biden volition be the 27th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention connected Climate Change (COP27) successful Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt,” Jean-Pierre said successful a statement. “At COP27, helium volition physique connected the important enactment the United States has undertaken to beforehand the planetary clime combat and assistance the astir susceptible physique resilience to clime impacts, and helium volition item the request for the satellite to enactment successful this decisive decade.”

After arriving astatine the world’s astir consequential clime discussions largely bare handed past year, Biden volition present beryllium capable to tout the transition of the Inflation Reduction Act, a measure that devotes hundreds of billions of dollars to cleanable vigor initiatives and brings Biden’s pledge to chopped U.S. emissions successful fractional by 2030 person wrong reach.

The Washington Post archetypal reported connected Biden’s program to be the league earlier this month.

After the clime conference, Biden volition question to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to enactment successful the yearly U.S.-ASEAN Summit and the East Asia Summit connected November 12-13. He’ll past be the G20 acme successful Bali, Indonesia, from November 13-16, according to the White House.

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