SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — President Joe Biden will arrive at this Red Sea enclave Friday to vaunt the climate victories he won half a world away.
But many officials here will be expecting him to deliver more than rhetoric about American carbon cuts.
“The thing about climate change is everyone’s affected. It’s just climate-vulnerable economies are impacted more and don’t have the means [to deal with it],” said Sara Jane Ahmed, an adviser to finance ministers for some of the world’s most imperiled countries.
Biden will land in this desert beach town days after other global leaders spoke urgently about their new climate pledges or offered spirited appeals to act quickly against rising temperatures. Biden’s visit follows pivotal U.S. elections that showcased his unpopularity and the likelihood that the influence of his political party is ebbing, for now, in the Capitol that three months ago was the site of his biggest climate win: passage of legislation that funneled $370 billion into a clean energy transformation.
But that money is for America — not for the nations that are asking for financial help from wealthy countries that released most of the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
A senior White House official told reporters that Biden’s visit to the meeting dubbed COP 27 will coincide with “historic momentum” on U.S. climate action.
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