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During a speech Monday at the United Nations climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, President Joe Biden called on world nations to do their part to avert catastrophic planetary warming.

This is the challenge of our collective lifetimes, the existential threat to human existence as we know it, and every day we delay the cost of inaction increases, Biden said. Let this be the moment when we answer historys call. ... Let this be the start of a decade of transformative action.

As Biden concluded his speech, John Kerry , the Biden administrations special climate envoy, took to Twitter to applaud Brazil for its new climate commitments, including pledges to end illegal deforestation by 2028 two years ahead of its previous target and slash greenhouse gas emissions in half by the end of the decade.

This adds crucial momentum to the global movement to combat the #ClimateCrisis , Kerry wrote. Looking forward to working together!

We welcome Brazils new commitments to end illegal deforestation by 2028, achieve a significant 50% GHG reduction by 2030 and achieve net zero by 2050. This adds crucial momentum to the global movement to combat the #ClimateCrisis. Looking forward to working together!

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We welcome Brazils new commitments to end illegal deforestation by 2028, achieve a significant 50% GHG reduction by 2030 and achieve net zero by 2050. This adds crucial momentum to the global movement to combat the #ClimateCrisis . Looking forward to working together!
Special Presidential Envoy John Kerry (@ClimateEnvoy) November 1, 2021

The U.S. has held on-again, off-again talks with the Bolsonaro government over climate and deforestation since the beginning of the Biden administration, which sees its attempts to bring Brazil back to the table on environmental concerns as a centerpiece of its efforts to reestablish the United States own leadership role in global climate efforts.

But Brazils new pledges are far less ambitious than they seem at first glance, experts say.

The emissions goal is just a correction to a previous policy that far-right President Jair Bolsonaros government outlined in December, said Marcio Astrini, the executive secretary of So Paulo-based Climate Observatory.

The 2020 target wouldve allowed Brazil to emit 400 million additional tons of carbon than it would have under pledges the country made in 2015. The new pledge merely puts Brazil back on the same path it had already plotted six years ago, when then-President Dilma Rousseff signed the country onto the Paris Climate agreement.

They just aligned the numbers to have the same emissions pledges for 2030 that the country already had in 2015, Astrini said. The Bolsonaro government, he added, is running to the past while the world is no longer the same, the climate emergency has [worsened] and countries are being called to look to the future.