Aiming For GHG Progress, Biden Boosts Climate Finance Aid Pledge

September 21, 2021
In a bid to prod the world’s largest carbon emitters into setting more ambitious climate targets, President Joe Biden is pledging to further increase the U.S. government’s financial assistance for poorer nations to help address climate change. “We also have to support countries and people that will be hit the hardest and have the fewest resources to help them adapt,” Biden said during a Sept. 21 address to the United Nations General Assembly. The president began by citing his April...


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