News - Biden to not attend UN climate summit in Dubai

President Joe Biden will miss the latest UN climate summit in Dubai (COP28 ), after two years of attending the talks in hopes of highlighting US leadership, a US official said Sunday. AFP reported. Schedules released by the White House for Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris showed neither heading to Dubai this week. Biden's engagements include a trip to Colorado to highlight US investment in wind energy, a meeting with the president of Angola, and the lighting of the national Christmas tree. A US official confirmed that Biden was not planning to attend COP28 this week or during a second window close to the end of the talks on December 12. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Biden administration was still discussing whether to send a top-level official to Dubai. The official did not give a reason for Biden's decision. But Biden has been focused for more than a month on the war between Israel and Hamas, and is also looking to highlight his domestic agenda with less than a year to the US presidential election.