Joe Biden falls asleep in the middle of the Climate Summit

More than 200 world leaders meet since last Sunday at the Climate Summit. COP26 kicks off with new challenges at a decisive time for the future of the environment.

However, the many interventions that occur in these types of global events can be overwhelming, especially if sleep is lacking. It is precisely what has happened to the president of the United States, Joe Biden, who has starred in the anecdote of the day when he closed his eyes for a few seconds in the middle of the international conference.

Some of the cameras installed at the event, held in Glasgow, have captured how the president of the United States closed my eyes intermittently to avoid falling asleep. Meanwhile, he held himself with crossed arms and an upright pose.

It was after a nap of about 30 seconds when one of his assistants has come to say something in his ear. Immediately afterwards, the president has recovered a participative pose.

Biden apologizes for Trump’s attitude to the Paris agreement

Beyond the anecdote, the president of the United States has appeared at the Climate Summit to raise awareness about the importance of acting in a “decisive decade” when the world has “limited time” to act against climate change.

“The science is clear. We only have a brief window left before increasing our ambitions,” said the US president in his speech at the event of world leaders at the opening of the XXVI Conference of the Parties of the Framework Convention on Climate Change from the ONU.

Thus, he has highlighted that your country “has returned to the table” of the climate negotiations – after his predecessor, Donald Trump, withdrew the North American country from the Paris Climate Agreement.

Thus, it has announced its proposal to allocate a total of $ 3 billion annually from 2024 to financing vulnerable countries to help them adapt. sea ​​level rise, droughts, floods and other consequences of global warming.

This funding could be part of the $ 11.4 billion that Biden has already pledged for annual climate finance in 2024, but that is pending the annual approval of Congress. If anything, it is the first time that it has put a price on the adaptation effort, which is critical in particular for island states and other vulnerable countries, as analyzed by Bloomberg.

Last week the US president announced the largest investment in history in his country to reduce greenhouse gas emissions around one gigaton in 2030, something that is still a draft proposal at the national level after months of negotiation.

In fact, the United States Senate stopped the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 (the first multilateral agreement to reduce CO2 emissions) and supported Trump’s proposal to withdraw the country from the Paris Agreement.

However, before COP26 Biden has assured that “The United States will show the world that it has not only returned to the negotiating table, but hopefully lead by example. ”

“I know that has not been the case and that is why my administration is working in an extraordinary way to show that our commitment to climate action is action, not words “, has defended Biden who has recognized that” there is no more time to be left behind or to sit among the undecided “or to argue with one another.

In this way, it has stated that high energy prices they only underline the need to diversify sources of electricity and of adopting new clean energy technologies.

For this reason, he has promised efforts to boost climate finance to limit the greenhouse gas emissions curve and has advanced that the United States will make “more announcements” during COP26 for forests, agriculture and methane.

“God save the planet”Biden concluded in his speech at the high-level meeting, in which he asked for “forgiveness” for the fact that the United States, during the Trump administration, left the Paris Agreement.