US President Joe Biden has invited 40 world leaders, including India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Leaders’ Summit on Climate to underscore the urgency and the economic benefits of stronger climate action. The two-day summit will be held virtually on 22 and 23 April and will be telecasted live.

The White House said that, it will be a key milestone on the road to the United Nations Climate Change Conference this November in Glasgow. Besides Modi, other leaders invited for the summit include Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Japanese PM Yoshihide Suga, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, UK PM Boris Johnson etc.

The summit will reconvene the US led Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, which brings together 17 countries responsible for approximately 80 percent of global emissions and global GDP.

Biden also invited the heads of other countries that are demonstrating strong climate leadership, are especially vulnerable to climate impacts or are charting innovative pathways to a net-zero economy.

The summit will discuss opportunities to strengthen capacity to protect lives and livelihoods from the impacts of climate change, address the global security challenges posed by climate change and the impact on readiness, and address the role of nature based solutions in achieving net zero by 2050.