During a virtual “Meeting of the Major Economies on Energy and Climate” today, President Biden and leaders from Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, the European Commission, European Council, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the United Kingdom along with the UN Secretary General discussed the “urgency of strengthening climate ambition.”
During the meeting, President Biden communicated his desire to use the group to “forge a political momentum and consensus to drive concrete actions” in the “key spheres” of energy, industry, land, and the ocean. Biden specifically said that “we…want to focus on…ocean initiatives” ahead of the Our Ocean Conference scheduled for Feb. 2022.
