Climate Politics
World Leaders From China to EU Hold Climate Meeting Without US
China’s Xi Jinping and the EU’s Ursula von der Leyen were among the leaders on a private video call organized by the United Nations.
The Secretariat building at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
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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.