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Added on the 09/11/2021 14:10:09 - Copyright : France 24 EN
"The United States will double by 2024 our annual public climate financing development to developing countries," US President Joe Biden says in a speech at the virtual climate summit that he convened on Earth Day. SOUNDBITE
Amazon chief Jezz Bezos pledges the retail giant will meet its emissions targets taken under the Paris climate accord 10 years ahead of schedule. We want to use our scope and our scale to lead the way," Bezos told a news conference in the US capital, announcing the firm would acquire 100,000 electric delivery vans to help cut its carbon fooptprint. The world's richest man, Bezos said Amazon would be the first signatory to the 2015 Paris deal to commit to meet its targets, a decade early, with other companies to follow suit. SOUNDBITE
According to reports, Donald Trump has shown Barack Obama's letter to him on inauguration day to Oval Office visitors and others visiting his private White House residence. It has become customary in the US for outgoing presidents to leave letters for their successors with every president doing it since George H.W. Bush wrote one for Bill Clinton.
U.S. President Barack Obama ushers in the ratification of the global agreement to combat climate change. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
The United States joins China to formally ratify the Paris agreement to curb climate-warming emissions on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hanzhou. Diane Hodges reports.
U.S. President Barack Obama hails the landmark climate accord reached in Paris as strong and historic, calling it the best chance to save the planet from the effects of global climate change. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).