President Joe Biden was swinging the focus of his battle for fast, concerted action against global warming from the U.S. Congress to the world on Monday, scolding rival China on climate and appealing to other leaders at a U.N. summit to commit to the kind of big climate measures that he is still working to nail down at home.

Speaking to world leaders at the newly opened climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Biden planned to tote up his not-yet year-old administration’s climate efforts and announce new climate initiatives, including billions of dollars in hoped-for legislation to help poorer communities abroad deal with climate damage already underway.

The $555 billion plan for climate spending is the centerpiece of a sweeping domestic policy package Biden and congressional Democrats presented Thursday, hours before the president traveled to Europe for another summit ahead of the climate meeting in Glasgow, Scotland.

Biden called the plan “the most significant investment to deal with the climate crisis that ever happened, beyond any other advanced nation in the world.”

While far from certain to pass in a closely divided Congress, the new framework reassured nervous Democrats and environmental leaders that a president who has made climate action a key focus of his administration will not arrive in Glasgow empty-handed.

The plan did not give Biden everything he wanted, but supporters still believe that, if enacted, it would set the United States on a path to meet Biden’s goal to cut carbon pollution in half by 2030.

“It’s a real signal to the world that the U.S. is back and demonstrating leadership on climate change,” said Tiernan Sittenfeld, senior vice president of the League of Conservation Voters.

Biden’s plan includes more than $300 billion in tax incentives for renewable energy such as wind and solar power, as well as investments to boost nuclear power, sharply increase the number of electric vehicles and spur production of batteries and other advanced materials.

The plan also would spend at least $100 billion to address extreme weather such as wildfires, hurricanes and droughts, address “legacy pollution” in hard-hit areas and establish a Civilian Climate Corps, a New Deal-style program to create thousands of jobs building trails, restoring streams and helping prevent catastrophic wildfires.

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on Sunday called the level of investment in clean energy “amazing” and said it demonstrated the importance of “having America lead in this as we go into” the climate summit.

The University of Minnesota is participating in a new $25 million project that will reduce uncertainties in climate change projections using artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

More accurate climate change projections may help policymakers and scientists create concrete steps to mitigate the impacts of the changing climate for the future. The Learning the Earth with AI and Physics (LEAP) center is a five-year project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Columbia University is leading the research in collaboration with the University of Minnesota.

The center is aiming to develop projection models through the use of new technology that differs from traditional modeling techniques used in the past.

“There are uncertainties that are inherent in these (traditional climate change) models,” said Vipin Kumar, University researcher and professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. “If the center succeeds, it will be able to reduce uncertainties in our projections.”

Increasingly volatile weather patterns around the world have accelerated in recent years, resulting in devastating consequences that impact people’s lives currently and into the future, Kumar said. This acceleration is apparent in the wildfires in California and recent hurricanes in the Southeast, The Minnesota Daily reported.

Accurately projecting climate change will allow scientists to predict how to react to future weather patterns and natural disasters and outline possible preventive measures that can be undertaken.

Current climate change projections show sea levels may rise anywhere from half a meter to two meters in the coming decades. Sea level increases of half a meter could result in the need to construct more sea walls, while sea level increases of two meters could be financially devastating in some places.

Creating a more precise projection model would help narrow this gap and provide clearer guidance for mitigation measures, according to Kumar.

Anh Nguyen can be reached at nguy41062@stthomas.edu.