PM Modi Accepts Joe Biden's Invitation to Attend Virtual Climate Summit This Month
News 18Prime Minister Narendra Modi has accepted US President Joe Biden’s invitation to a virtual summit on climate this month, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Friday. Biden invited Prime Minister Modi along with other world leaders to a US-hosted summit on climate to underscore the urgency and the economic benefits of stronger climate action. The White House said a key objective of both the Leaders’ Summit and the COP26 will be to catalyse efforts to keep limiting warming 1.5 degree Celsius’ goal within reach. Key themes of the summit will include galvanising efforts by the world’s major economies to reduce emissions during this critical decade to keep a limit to warming of 1.5 degree Celsius within reach and mobilising public and private sector finance to drive the net-zero transition and to help vulnerable countries cope with climate impacts, it said.