World leaders met in Glasgow, U.K., on Monday for the first day of the highly anticipated COP26 climate summit.
Delegates were asked to accelerate action on climate change and commit to more ambitious cuts in their countries’ emissions, all in an effort to limit global temperature rises.
U.S. President Joe Biden warned in his COP26 speech on Monday that “in an age where this pandemic has made so painfully clear that no nation can wall itself off from borderless threats, we know that none of us can escape the worst that’s yet to come if we fail to seize this moment.”
Biden added that “within the growing catastrophe I believe there’s an incredible opportunity, not just for the United States but for all of us.”
He said that there was an opportunity to build an “equitable, clean energy future” that could create “millions of good paying jobs in the process” around the world.
Biden added that creating an environment that raised the standard of living around the world was both a “moral” and “economic imperative.”
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