The United States proposes an “ambitious climate action” in the region to combat global warming and a new approach to the migration crisis
“Let’s get to work building the future this region deserves.” With these words, the President of the United States, Joe Biden, opened this Thursday the ninth Summit of the Americas. The region is “large and diverse” and not all countries are “always in agreement on everything”, but disagreements must be resolved with “mutual respect and dialogue”, snapped the White House leader. How? With the “distinctive stamp of the region”: democracy.
“At a time when democracy is under assault around the world, let us come together and renew our conviction that democracy is the essential ingredient for the future of America,” Biden said in the opening speech after greeting, along with his wife, Jill, to more than twenty heads of state. He also met with Brazilian Jair Bolsonaro, with whom he discussed the importance of holding “free elections.”
Washington focused on global warming, for which it seeks to “build a lasting partnership.” The Vice President, Kamalla Harris, launched the Partnership between the US and the Caribbean to address the Climate Crisis, due to the region’s vulnerability due to rising sea levels. And it is this region, with immense natural resources, that has suffered this crisis.
But the Biden Administration does not want to stop there. It will also “provide support” to Brazil, Colombia and Peru through Amazonia Connect, which was launched at the Glasgow climate summit, in order to reduce deforestation.
Collective goal of 70%
The White House expects the inclusion of Barbados, Jamaica, Guyana, Brazil, and Argentina in the Renewable Energies for Latin America and the Caribbean project made up of fifteen countries. The intention is “to reach the collective goal of 70% renewable energy in the electricity sector by 2030,” Harris said. To do this, he announced that the US coordinates with four regional development banks the availability of up to 50,000 million dollars over the next five years to “support ambitious climate action.”
This Friday Biden will present a “new innovative and integrated approach to managing migration and shared responsibility throughout the hemisphere.” Here the controversy is served, since the presence of Mexico is key to addressing this crisis, but it declined to participate because the United States did not invite Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, considering them dictatorships. Havana affirmed that the summit will lack an “effective result” and warned that the migratory flow will continue.
On the other hand, the US president spoke by phone with Juan Guaidó, whom he did not invite to the summit despite supporting him as interim president of Venezuela, and reaffirmed his willingness to “calibrate the sanctions” if a negotiated solution to the crisis is favored. leading to free elections.
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