Israel war forces Joe Biden to skip UN summit

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Addressing global warming has been a central domestic and international issue for Mr Biden, who earlier this month called climate change “the ultimate threat to humanity”. For the past two years, Mr Biden has attended the annual UN climate conference, the location of which changes. In 2021, Mr Biden travelled to Glasgow, Scotland, for the talks, where he apologised for the United States briefly pulling out of a global climate pact under president Donald Trump, who mocked climate science. Last year, he made a three-hour stopover in Egypt for the summit, where he reasserted US leadership in the global fight...