Vice President Kamala Harris announced new funding for climate action on Saturday at the COP28 summit in Dubai, where she touted American leadership on the climate crisis, including its recent investments in clean energy and efforts to make vulnerable communities more resilient to worsening climate disasters.Harris said the U.S. would pledge another $3 billion to the Green Climate Fund 바카라 게임 웹사이트� the main finance vehicle to help developing nations adapt to the climate crisis and cut fossil fuel pollution. The U.S. has previously delivered $2 billion to the fund.The announcement comes after the U.S. was criticized by some climate experts and advocacy groups earlier this week for contributing what they said was an "embarrassing" amount of money 바카라 게임 웹사이트� $17.5 million 바카라 게임 웹사이트� to a newly created damage fund to help developing countries cope with climate disasters."The United States has turned ambition into action," Harris said, touting billions of dollars in new investments as part of the bipartisan infrastructure law and Inflation Reduction Act. Harris referenced hundreds of new and expanded solar panel, wind turbine, electric vehicle and battery manufacturing plants, and new efforts to safeguard habitats and communities from climate-fueled extreme weather and rising seas."Today, we are demonstrating through action how the world can and must meet this crisis," Harris said. "This is a pivotal moment."In what was described by some advocates as a mostly symbolic move, the U.S. on Saturday also announced it is committed to phasing out coal-fired power plants, and joined the Powering Past Coal Alliance. The alliance focuses on halting new unabated coal plants 바카라 게임 웹사이트� ones that do nothing to capture facilities바카라 게임 웹사이트� carbon pollution before it reaches the atmosphere.The county was already on the path to phasing coal 바카라 게임 웹사이트� the fossil fuel with the biggest climate impact 바카라 게임 웹사이트� out of its energy portfolio. Coal started to get displaced by the natural gas boom more than a decade ago, and has recently struggled to compete with vastly cheaper renewable energy like wind and solar. The U.S. has retired a "substantial" amount of coal-fired power over the past decade, according to the Energy Information Administration.Harris' attendance at the summit in Dubai is in line with her recent steps to ramp up public messaging on climate change. In recent months, the vice president has attended climate-related events, including talking to students and young voters on an issue central to them.She is the highest-ranking U.S. official to attend the conference after President Joe Biden decided against attending for the first time during his tenure, having visited both the 2021 and 2022 editions of the conference. Despite the diminished stature of these gatherings in the eyes of some climate activists, the president received some criticism for deciding not to travel to Dubai for this year's summit. U.S. presidents do not typically attend every annual climate conference, often only attending during major years.Harris will also be focused on the Israel-Hamas war at the summit during conversations with world leaders, according to the White House.Harris, the White House said, "will have an opportunity to meet with regional leaders and consult with them on latest developments in Gaza and, in particular, she will focus on day-after planning."The summit began this week with global delegates formally adopting a damage fund that was decades in the making. In what represented an early success, several countries pledged millions of dollars to help nations hit hardest by the climate crisis. The UAE pledged $100 million, as did Germany. The U.K. announced £60 million, part of which will be used for "other arrangements," according to a release, while the U.S. committed $17.5 million to the fund and Japan contributed $10 million.The Biden administration바카라 게임 웹사이트�s handling of climate change reflects a larger pattern ahead of next year바카라 게임 웹사이트�s general election. Recent polls show Biden receiving low approval ratings from voters and trailing former President Donald Trump, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, in battleground states. At the same time, the administration has struggled to promote its signature achievements in a way that resonates with voters.Climate change is often cited by young progressive voters as a top issue. While Biden has made it a top priority since coming into office 바카라 게임 웹사이트� he signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act, which includes key provisions to reduce carbon emissions, and has recommitted the US to the Paris Agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 바카라 게임 웹사이트� there is still an undercurrent among young voters that the administration has not done enough.A Washington Post-University of Maryland poll from July found that 57% of Americans disapproved of the way Biden has handled climate policy, including 59% of 18-29-year-olds. Seventy-four percent of Democrats said they approved of how Biden had addressed the issue, but just 40% of independents and 8% of Republicans agreed. Most Americans 바카라 게임 웹사이트� 71% 바카라 게임 웹사이트� said they had read or heard very little about the Inflation Reduction Act.CNN바카라 게임 웹사이트�s Priscilla Alvarez, Sam Fossum and Ella Nilsen contributed to this report.