Biden apologises for Trump climate actions and tells Cop26 it is decisive decade

He said: “I shouldn’t apologise, but I do apologise for the fact the United States, the last administration, pulled out of the Paris Accords and put us sort of behind the eight ball a little bit.”

US President Joe Biden speaks at the opening ceremony for the Cop26 summit at the Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow (Yves Herman/PA)

President Joe Biden has acknowledged that the US and other developed nations bear much of the responsibility for climate change, and said actions taken this decade to contain global warming will be decisive in preventing future generations from suffering.

“None of us can escape the worst that is yet to come if we fail to seize this moment,” Mr Biden declared at the Cop26 summit in Glasgow.