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Bill Gates has thanked Joe Biden “for re-establishing America’s leading role on climate change”.

“This is a promising moment,” the Microsoft co-founder said. “Climate activists and young people especially are bringing amazing energy and attention to this issue. They are demanding action and rightly so.

He claimed that “governments around the world are meeting those demands with ambitious commitments”, in Paris six years ago and in Glasgow later this year.

But existing technology won’t “allow us to meet our ambitious goals”, he said, citing the current costs of zero-carbon technologies and calling for investment in innovation and development of the necessary infrastructure.

As Joe Biden approaches his 100th day in office, a new Harvard Institute of Politics poll suggests that young Americans are vastly more hopeful about their country’s future than they were four years ago, with the largest changes seen among people of colour.

Some 56 per cent of people polled now say they are hopeful about America’s future – compared with just 31 per cent in autumn 2017.

Four years ago, just 18 per cent of Black Americans surveyed said they were hopeful about America. That figure now sits at 72 per cent, according to the Harvard Public Opinion Project poll.

“For too long this climate conversation has been viewed as a zero-sum game, one of trade-offs – the climate or the economy. No longer,” said US energy secretary Jennifer Granholm.

“Going big on our ambitions means that we’re going to create jobs for millions of people – construction workers, project managers, engineers, technicians, [and] so much more.

“That means we can all do right by our people as we do right by the planet. We can lift up communities that have been knocked down, we can make good on moral debts owed to those bearing the burdens of fossil fuel pollution. This is an exciting moment.”

US energy secretary Jennifer Granholm has said that her department will be announcing “new goals for bold, achievable leaps in next-generation technologies, starting with hydrogen, carbon-capture, industrial fuels and energy storage”.

“We will marshal our 17 national laboratories, our universities, and our private sector to unlock major breakthroughs,” Ms Granholm said.

“We’ve already announced a goal of cutting the price of solar in half yet again by 2030. And next, we’ll start lowering the cost of clean renewable hydrogen by 80 per cent before 2030, making it competitive with natural gas.

“We’re going to slash battery cell prices in half again, and reduce the need for critical materials, making electric vehicles affordable and maybe even cheaper than gasoline vehicles. And we’re going to dramatically reduce the cost of atmospheric carbon capture while ramping up incentives for large-scale efforts across the world as well.

“This is our generation’s moonshot.”

Brenda Mallory, chair of the White House’s Council on Environmental Quality, has said that Joe Biden’s approach to climate is guided by a few core beliefs:

• “That every single person has a fundamental right to drink clean water and breathe clean air”
• “That for too many people we have failed to deliver those protections”, in the US and elsewhere.

“Correcting these historic wrongs is not going to be easy, and requires a long-term commitment. But acknowledging the need for change is a critical first step,” Ms Mallory said.

“We can’t wait for Cop26 to take action,” 2020 presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg has told the summit.

“We have a chance right here today to demonstrate what strong leadership looks like. Yes, it’s about setting ambitious goals, but it’s also about bringing everyone from every part of the world together and working as a team to meet them. Not just in government, but in the private sector too.”

He added: “If you look at the data, cities and businesses hold the key to defeating climate change. They are responsible for the vast majority of emissions. So helping them and incentivising them to take action really is critical.”

US special envoy for climate John Kerry is kicking off proceedings at the climate summit today.

Talking of discussions had “on the margins” of yesterday’s summit, he said: “Many countries emphasised the critical role of Cop26 in Glasgow in keeping 1.5C as the limit of the warming that we face.

“And because we know that we are already at 1.2C, we have a very small margin to play with.”

Mr Kerry said that “words are not enough”, and that finishing a “rulebook” at Glasgow is not enough – “that what is critical is the actions, the outcomes, particularly of the largest emitters in the world”.

He added that delegates from many countries “echoed President Biden’s themes – that action on climate is an opportunity for job creation, and it is important to leave behind communities that are dependent on fossil fuels”.

A new report from a White House-appointed group published today suggests that the US government can tap into $38bn from existing federal funds to revitalise communities hard-hit by the closure of coal mines and coal-fired power plants.

“The coal and power plant workers who built our nation can play a huge role in making America’s clean energy future a reality, and this report outlines just the first steps the Biden Administration is taking to make sure they have those opportunities – right in their communities,” said US energy secretary Jennifer Granholm, a member of the working group.

Reuters reports that the US Energy Department has also announced $109.5m in new funds to jumpstart “next-generation industries” such as carbon capture projects on existing industrial and power plants, and critical mineral extraction from waste streams that will create jobs directly in affected communities.

We’ll be covering the events of today’s climate summit as they happen.

You can watch along here, and at the top of this article.

A New York man has been arrested for allegedly taking part in the insurrection at the US Capitol on 6 January, after bragging about his involvement on the dating app Bumble.

Robert Chapman, from Carmel in New York State, was arrested by the FBI on Thursday in connection to the riot, with the bureau claiming in his charging documents that he had sent a message allegedly boasting that he “made it all the way into Statuary Hall”.

James Crump has this report: