Joe Biden stumbles upon words in pledge to decarbonise US at COP27

Joe Biden was giving an address to delegates and world leaders at the COP27 summit in Egypt when the US President stumbled upon his words on three occasions. The American President pledged America would be the driving force behind the transition towards an clean energy economy. But as he made a series of pledges, the President struggled to pronounce some of the words.Speaking at the podium to the COP27 delegates, the gaffe-prone US President declared: “I pledged to make the transition to a low-carbon future more affordable for everyone.”The President then pledged to “accelerate the decarbonation beyond our border” and failed to realise his misprounded the word “decarbonisation”. He continued: “In fact, the International Energy Agency recently concluded that our significant climate investments would quote: ‘help turbocharge the en… excuse me.”In his second attempt, he repeated: “turbocharge the emergy cleaner…” before stumbling upon his words again. Joe Biden stumbled upon three words while making his COP27 speech (Image: TWITTER/@Talk TV) Joe Biden squinted his eyes to read the teleprompted (Image: TWITTER/@Talk TV)In a third and final attempt, he said: “… clean energy economy.”President Joe Biden used a short visit to the United Nations climate change summit (COP27) in Egypt to tell the world the United States was ready to take back its leadership role on fighting a warming planet after the passage of one of the president’s key priorities.He also apologised for the detrimental role his predecessor played in rolling back key climate policies and pulling out of an international climate treaty.In 2020, Donald Trump formally withdrew from the Paris climate accords, which are designed to mitigate the effects of climate change and limit the carbon gas emissions.READ MORE: Taiwan rolls out Civil Defence groups ready for Chinese invasion Joe Biden stumbled upon three words at COP27 (Image: TWITTER/@Talk TV) Joe Biden made a shirt visit to COP27 in Egypt (Image: GETTY)Hours after being sworn into office in January 2021, Joe Biden triggered the US comeback in the international treaty.He said: “We rejoined the Paris climate agreement. I apologise we ever pulled out of the agreement!”Biden proclaimed the US is back as a global leader on climate change following passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, which included around $370 billion in clean energy incentives meant to slash the use of harmful greenhouse gases.”After the past two years the US has delivered unprecedented progress at home, upgraded power grid, expanding public transit and rail, building EV charging stations,” he said.DON’T MISS:Ex-Trump aide warns ‘Democrats going to regret’ a Biden 2024 rerun [REPORT]  ‘Time for Republicans to end the Trump purgatory and begin new era’ [REPORT]  Biden warned Democrat plans will be ‘dead on arrival’ [REPORT]   Joe Biden used his COP27 speech to apologise for his predecessor’s policies (Image: GETTY)President Biden continued: “And this summer the US congress passed the biggest and most important climate bill in the history of our country, the inflation reduction act.””My friends, I came to the presidency determined to make … transformational changes that are needed, that America needs to make and we have to do for the rest of the world, to overcome decades of opposition and obstacles of progress on this issue alone,” Biden said, “to reestablish the United States as a trustworthy and committee global leader on climate.”As I stand here before you, we’ve taken enormous strides to achieve that.”READ NEXT:Vladimir Putin will not attend G20 summit Biden savages Musk citing national security concerns Joe Biden doesn’t deny his ‘intentions’ to run again as PresidentJoe Biden celebrates US midterm ‘red wave’ failureTrump’s ‘ego overrides reason’ as ex-POTUS looks set to face DeSantis