Biden urges action at UN climate summit but without legislative victory back home

GLASGOW, Scotland — Calling this “the decisive decade,” President Joe Biden assured world leaders at the United Nations climate summit Monday that the United States will pass legislation to cut emissions and make unprecedented investments in clean energy, despite political tension within his own party that has made progress difficult.

“Climate change is already ravaging the world,” the president said, pointing to increasingly frequent and severe heat waves, droughts, wildfires and floods that have cost the U.S. and other countries trillions of dollars and led to crop failures and starvation. He called on other nations to increase their climate goals, even as rising prices for coal, oil and natural gas — and the resulting political instability — have complicated or even delayed their transitions to cleaner fuel.

“Will we act? Will we do what