climate crisis
Global warming also stood out on Thursday’s agenda.
Biden and Harris met with the leaders of Caribbean nations, particularly vulnerable to rising sea levels.
Harris launched the United States-Caribbean Partnership to Address the Climate Crisis (PACC 2030).
The United States also provided support to Brazil, Colombia and Peru through the so-called “Amazonia Connect”, which was launched at the climate summit in Glasgow, in the United Kingdom. And it expects the inclusion of five more members (Barbados, Jamaica and Guyana, Brazil and Argentina) in the Renewable Energies for Latin America and the Caribbean (RELAC) initiative, made up of 15 other nations.
“We are at a tipping point. More things are going to change in the next 10 years than have changed in the last 30 years in the world,” Biden told business leaders on the sidelines of the summit.
A few meters from where the political leaders meet, some drag queens parodied Marilyn Monroe’s “Happy Birthday, Mr President” and Evita’s “Don’t cry for me, Argentina” to demand that the heads of state act against the climate change.
Since the summit began, Washington has made one or more announcements per day: an alliance for economic prosperity, a proposal to reform the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and 1.9 billion dollars from the private sector to boost employment and contain migration. from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, as well as a Health Corps of the Americas to improve the training of 500,000 health workers.
At the summit, which will end on Friday, commitment projects are expected to be adopted, on which they have been working for months, on five areas: democratic governance, health and resilience, climate change and environmental sustainability, transition to clean energy and digital transformation.
In addition, the so-called Los Angeles Declaration on Migration, an unstoppable phenomenon, will be approved. And while the leaders debate, thousands of irregular migrants advance through Mexico towards the United States.