US to galvanise global ‘ambition’ on climate: Officials

The United States is back to leading the world on fighting climate change and President Joe Biden will use a UN Summit in Glasgow to energise partners, US officials said.

Special climate envoy John Kerry told reporters ahead of Biden’s arrival on Monday at the COP26 Summit that the aim is “to leave Glasgow having raised global ambition very significantly and to be more on track to keep a 1.5 degrees within reach”.

Biden is set on Monday to address COP26, which is tasked with trying to maintain a global bid to restrict average temperature rises to 1.5C, preventing what scientists say will be an ever more destructive climate crisis.