The United States did not invite Morocco to the climate summit

The Biden administration is planning to host an online climate summit on April 22 and 23. Forty states are invited to the event, but Morocco is not on the list, revealed by the White House on Friday, March 26.

In Africa, the United States invited the presidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, South Africa, Gabon and Nigeria. The Arab world will be represented by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

The kingdom hosted in November 2016 in Marrakech the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP 22). It is among the rare African countries to have adopted a strategy for the development of renewable energies.

Within the Biden administration, the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate is John Kerry, who served as Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017 during Barack Obama's second term. A period that was marked by moments of tension with Rabat: in 2013 the US proposed to extend MINURSO’s mission to the monitoring of human rights in the Sahara; and in 2016 a report by the State Department criticized the human rights situation in Morocco.