World Leaders From China to EU Hold Climate Meeting Without US (2)

Heads of state and government leaders including Chinese President Xi Jinping and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen took part in a two-hour virtual meeting aimed at returning focus to climate action in an increasingly challenging global context.

Notably representatives from the US were not on the call organized by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres and Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Wednesday.

Under President Donald Trump’s administration, the world’s largest historical emitter of greenhouse gases has started to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, a landmark 2015 deal that guides emissions cuts to slow down global warming. Along with retreating ...