INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
US President Joe Biden will attend next month&s COP27 United Nations climate summit in Egypt, the White House said Friday, vowing he would
&highlight the need for the world to act.&The COP27 conference will once more seek to boost global efforts to slow the climate crisis that
is intensifying natural disasters, from wildfires to severe storms.Biden will &advance the global climate fight and help the most vulnerable
build resilience to climate impacts, and he will highlight the need for the world to act in this decisive decade,& the White House said in a
statement.Egypt is to host the 27th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, in the Red Sea resort town
of Sharm el-Sheikh.Biden will be at the summit on November 11, before heading to Cambodia for the annual US-ASEAN summit and then on to
Indonesia for a G20 summit, Reuters reported.&He will work with G20 partners to address key challenges such as climate change, the global
impact of (President Vladimir) Putin&s war on Ukraine, including on energy and food security and affordability, and a range of other
priorities,& the White House said.US officials have said Biden has no intention to meet Putin at the G20 summit, even if Putin attends.COP26
last year ended with a pledge to keep global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels — a goal the world is set to miss
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