美国和加拿大将于周三举办一场“高层峰会”气候变化根据美国官员的说法，他把它描述为第一次外交行动拜登政府试图将这个问题重新放在美国外交政策议程的首位。
周二，加拿大总理贾斯廷·特鲁多对这一举措表示欢迎，他实际上与总统进行了会晤乔·拜登在美国总统的第一次双边会议上。
在气候变化问题上，“美国的领导地位在过去的几年里被深深地怀念”，特鲁多说他补充说，美国人没有把所有与气候变化有关的内容都删除，而是把它们加入到他们会议后的联合声明中，这很好。
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乔·拜登总统在与加拿大总理贾斯汀·Tr举行虚拟会议后发表讲话
美国官员说，在拜登的气候特使约翰·克里(John Kerry)共同主持的周三峰会上，加拿大预计将宣布承诺提高其减少碳排放的目标，而拜登政府计划在拜登的地球日气候峰会之前公布美国的目标。
拜登周二与特鲁多会晤后表示，两国承诺在气候变化问题上“加大赌注”，并“激励其他国家提高自己的雄心壮志”。
此举是拜登政府的第一步外交举措，克里敦促采取更大行动应对“气候危机”，并开始在这个问题上与各国、联合国和非政府组织重新接触。
克里的一名顾问表示，加拿大正在“与我们合作，在这十年里树立雄心，不仅是双边合作，也是与世界其他主要经济体合作”。
克里以越来越紧迫的语气发出了警报，称需要采取超越巴黎气候协议的行动。在奥巴马政府期间，他曾帮助谈判巴黎气候协议。前总统唐纳德·特朗普宣布美国退出不具约束力的协议，但拜登重新达成交易他上任的第一天——上周五正式重新加入。
“在决定性的十年里，我们绝对，显然，毫无疑问，”克里周五说。“重要的是未来10年人们会做什么。”
克里和加拿大环境和气候变化部长乔纳森·威尔金森(Jonathan Wilkinson)将共同主持周三的会议，会谈还将重点关注监测和应对共同的环境威胁，以及调整美国和加拿大在石油和天然气、交通和其他领域的政策和法规。
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乔·拜登总统抵达发言时向总统气候特使约翰·克里致意
拜登此前宣布，计划在地球日主办一次世界领导人峰会，讨论气候变化问题。克里星期五说，它将包括世界上主要的碳排放国和迄今为止气候变化最紧迫的受害者，包括面临海平面上升的孟加拉国和太平洋岛国。
这位顾问说:“总统对这个问题有着深刻的承诺，并期待着一个核心的、长期的密切伙伴和盟友共同努力，以确保这次峰会取得成功。”11月的第二十六届缔约方大会也是如此。
官员们拒绝透露在拜登的地球日集会之前是否会有其他类似的高层会议，包括克里是否与中国外长交谈过。
但克里顾问告诉美国广播公司新闻，这位前国务卿和总统候选人正在“与每个主要经济体进行对话，并就此进行全面接触”。...在本次峰会召开的同时，我们正在进行许多对话，”包括重新启动能源和气候主要经济体论坛，该论坛由奥巴马政府于2009年发起，最后一次会议于2015年7月举行。
US, Canada to hold climate talks, paving road to Biden's Earth Day summit
The U.S. andCanadawill host a "high-level summit" on Wednesday aboutclimate change, according to U.S. officials, who described it as thefirst diplomatic initiativefor the Biden administration as it seeks to put the issue back at the top of the U.S. foreign policy agenda.
That move was welcomed by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday, who met virtually with PresidentJoe Bidenin the U.S. president's first bilateral meeting.
"U.S. leadership has been sorely missed over the past years" on climate change,Trudeau said, adding it was "nice when the Americans are not pulling out all references to climate change and instead adding them" into their joint statements after their meetings.
During Wednesday's summit, co-hosted by Biden's special envoy for climate John Kerry, Canada is expected to announce a commitment to boost its target to reduce its carbon emissions, the U.S. officials said, while the Biden administration plans to release the U.S. target by Biden's climate summit on Earth Day.
After his meetings with Trudeau on Tuesday, Biden said the two countries committed to "up the ante" on climate change and "spur other countries to raise their own ambitions."
The move is a first diplomatic step for the Biden administration as Kerry urges greater action to tackle the "climate crisis" and begins reengaging countries, the United Nations and non-governmental organizations on the issue.
Canada is working "in partnership with us in creating ambition in this decade, not just bilaterally, but with all the other major economies in the rest of the world," a Kerry adviser said.
In increasingly urgent tones, Kerry has sounded the alarm about the need for action beyond the Paris climate accord, which he helped negotiate during the Obama administration. Former President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from the non-binding deal, but Bidenre-entered the dealon his first day in office -- formally rejoining last Friday.
"We are absolutely, clearly, without question inside the decisive decade," Kerry said Friday. "It's what people will do in the next 10 years that matter."
Kerry and Canadian Minister of Environment and Climate Change Jonathan Wilkinson will co-host Wednesday's meetings, and the talks will also focus on monitoring and addressing shared environmental threats and on aligning U.S. and Canadian policies and regulations on oil and gas, transportation, and other sectors.
Biden has previously announced plans to host a major summit of world leaders to discuss climate change on Earth Day. Kerry said Friday it will include the world's major carbon emitters and climate change's most urgent victims so far, including Bangladesh and Pacific island countries facing rising sea levels.
"The president has a deep commitment to this issue and is looking to a core, longstanding close partner and ally to work together to make sure that this summit is a success," the adviser said, and the COP26 summit in November is too.
The officials declined to say whether there would be other similar high-level meetings before Biden's Earth Day gathering, including whether Kerry has spoken to his Chinese counterpart.
But the Kerry adviser told ABC News that the former secretary of state and presidential candidate is "talking to every major economy and reaching out comprehensively on this. ... We have lots of dialogues underway in parallel with the run-up to this summit," including re-launching the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, which the Obama administration initiated in 2009 and that last met in July 2015.
