COP26 summit: Biden says US will meet climate goals, must help developing world

President Joe Biden on Monday sought to assure world leaders the United States would keep its promise to slash greenhouse gas emissions by more than half by the end of the decade, even as the key policies to ensure those reductions remain uncertain.

Biden joined leaders from over 100 countries in Glasgow for the start of the COP26 climate conference, which kicked off on the heels of the G20 summit in Rome that concluded with a statement that urged "meaningful and effective" action on climate change, but left huge work for negotiators to ensure an ambitious outcome.

Biden, who succeeded former president Donald Trump in January, acknowledged that the United States had not always led by example on climate change.

Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris climate accord; Biden rejoined the agreement when he took office.

Biden also announced a long-term strategy laying out how the United States would achieve a longer-term goal of net-zero emissions by 2050.

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