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Biden: US will cut emissions by 50 percent by 2030
By EUobserver
President Joe Biden announced at a virtual climate summit of dozens of world leaders that the US will aim to reduce its greenhouse-gas emissions by between 50 percent and 52 percent by 2030, based on 2005 levels. He added that the new US goal will set it on the path to net-zero emissions by 2050, and that other countries now needed to raise their ambition.