Putin, Xi among leaders invited to White House climate summit

[demmiblue]

Source: The Hill

The White House on Friday announced a list of 40 world leaders it has invited to participate in its Leaders Summit on Climate from April 22-23, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The Biden administration also pledged to announce its new Nationally Determined Contribution to carbon emissions under the Paris Climate Agreement before the summit.

In addition to Xi and Putin, invitees include Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.

“The Summit will reconvene the U.S.-led Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, which brings together 17 countries responsible for approximately 80 percent of global emissions and global GDP,” the White House said in a statement Friday.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/545151-white-house-announces-leaders-invited-to-climate-summit

[taxi]

1. The chat with (edit) President Biden, Ambassador Merkel,(Putin and Xi) would be interesting nt

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[soothsayer]

3. Social distancing should help protect against poison

[taxi]

11. Thank you nt

[JI7]

2. To actually deal with this issue we will have to work with everyone

[abqtommy]

4. I sure hope that U.S. Customs goes through sPUTIN and Xi's luggage looking for

polonium and poison darts!

[demmiblue]

5. No worries... it is a virtual meeting. n/t

[Bayard]

14. Thank Gawd!!

[dalton99a]

6. Full list:

The President invited the following leaders to participate in the Summit:

Prime Minister Gaston Browne, Antigua and Barbuda
President Alberto Fernandez, Argentina
Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Australia
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh
Prime Minister Lotay Tshering, Bhutan
President Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Canada
President Sebastián Piñera, Chile
President Xi Jinping, People’s Republic of China
President Iván Duque Márquez, Colombia
President Félix Tshisekedi, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, Denmark
President Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission
President Charles Michel, European Council
President Emmanuel Macron, France
President Ali Bongo Ondimba, Gabon
Chancellor Angela Merkel, Germany
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India
President Joko Widodo, Indonesia
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel
Prime Minister Mario Draghi, Italy
Prime Minister Andrew Holness, Jamaica
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Japan
President Uhuru Kenyatta, Kenya
President David Kabua, Republic of the Marshall Islands
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexico
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand
President Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria
Prime Minister Erna Solberg, Norway
President Andrzej Duda, Poland
President Moon Jae-in, Republic of Korea
President Vladimir Putin, The Russian Federation
King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore
President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, Spain
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey
President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, United Arab Emirates
Prime Minister Boris Johnson, United Kingdom
President Nguyễn Phú Trọng, Vietnam

[George II]

7. Just when I think Biden has done it all, he comes up with something like this and tops himself!

There's no grass growing under his feet. When does the guy sleep or eat?

Of course most of this is probably because he may have the most talented inner circle and staff ever assembled by a President.

Quite impressive!

[onetexan]

9. yup MoJo's done more in his first 2 months in office than the Fake PoS did in all 4 years

hats off to our Chief!!

[SallyHemmings]

13. It is amazing what one can do

When he is not eating cheeseburgers, drinking Diet Coke, bing watching TV and playing golf and a dumpy resort.

[progree]

8. From the E&E Group: China's CO2 Output Up 4% In 2nd Half Of 2020; Another 247 GW Of Coal Planned Or

Or Being Built

(for scale, that's more that 1/5 of the U.S. total installed electric generating capacity of all kinds, 1117 GW of which about 223 GW is coal )

Last year, Chinese provinces granted construction approval to 47 gigawatts of coal power projects, more than three times the capacity permitted in 2019.

.... .... In recent months, China’s leadership has signaled a move toward deeper decarbonization by reiterating its Paris Agreement pledge of a 2030 emissions peak and by vowing to reach carbon neutrality by 2060, the latter goal outlined by leader Xi Jinping last September to much global fanfare.

I missed the global fanfare.

More: https://www.democraticunderground.com/1127144073
and still more: https://e360.yale.edu/features/despite-pledges-to-cut-emissions-china-goes-on-a-coal-spree

[GB_RN]

10. Don't Let Putin

Near the food/tea. People might come down with polonium poisoning. I mean, he’s already basically threatened Biden with his, “I wish him good health” comment.

Fuck that thug.

[taxi]

12. Xi has probably explained how the leash works. There's a pair of badguys from the silver screen. nt

[bluestarone]

15. So how will putin and QRUMP

Try to stir up trouble? I'm sure SOMETHING will be planned.