Even as the dust continues to settle on a deeply divisive US Presidential race, victory for Joe Biden will galvanise action on climate change and sustainable recovery in the US and the wider world.
While he may experience some tough legislative battles at the federal level, the President-Elect's aptly titled 'Plan to Build a Modern, Sustainable Infrastructure and an Equitable Clean Energy Future' fronted by a hefty $2trn budget promises to overturn what has been described as "four years of retreat from climate diplomacy". Return to Paris First up is the Paris Agreement. After the US officially left the Agreement on 5 November, Biden took to social media to announce that his administration would rejoin it "in exactly 77 days". The implications for the US's return to global lead...
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