October 28, 2021

President Joe Biden departed Washington, D.C. on Thursday for the most consequential climate summit since the signing of the Paris accord in 2015, with significant barriers to his signature climate package still standing.

The president will land in Glasgow, Scotland without having signed a signature climate package into law and congressional Democrats still sputtering on the broader social-spending bill. There’s confidence — though not unanimity — among Democrats that he’ll arrive with sufficient detail to galvanize the rest of the world toward higher climate ambitions, though the party had hoped to send him overseas with something more concrete.

“We’ve never been more serious about passing climate legislation,” said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a Foreign Relations Committee member and a top Biden ally. “This is real. This is different than years past. I know the trust gap exists, but I think we’re gonna answer the bell.”

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