Environmentalists urge Biden to hike climate aid to poorer countries

On the eve of President Joe Biden’s first address to United Nations, environmentalists are pressing the president to commit to significantly increase United States financial assistance to developing countries to adapt to climate change. “As one of the world’s wealthiest and most polluting countries, the U.S. has a moral responsibility to support countries with the least financial resources that are suffering the most from climate inaction,” said Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) President and CEO Manish Bapna in a Sept...