On the occasion of Mother Earth Day, leaders of the United States and other countries, representatives from the leading international environmental organizations, and donors have gathered online on April 22 and 23, 2021 to discuss solutions to the challenges posed by climate change and the importance of increasing public and private investment in climate innovation and others.
Please watch the second-day sessions of the Summit live on April 23, 2021 at 8:00 pm Ulaanbaatar time at the link below.
On a related note, the U.S Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), in the last five years alone, has invested $1.5 billion dollars to integrate climate adaptation, mitigation and resilience into projects that drive sustainable and meaningful growth. This time MCC publicly announced as part of the Biden-Harris Administrations’ Leaders Summit on Climate that it will increase climate-related investments to more than 50% of our programming funds over the next five years.
Source: U.S Department of State
https://www.state.gov/leaders-summit-on-climate/