US President Joe Biden's executive orders aim to transform the nation's heavily fossil-fuel powered economy into a clean-burning one. "We can't wait any longer," to address the climate crisis, Biden said at the White House. He said his orders will "supercharge our administration's ambitious plan to confront the existential threat of climate change". "When I think of climate change and the answers to it, I think of jobs," Biden said. President Donald Trump ridiculed the science of climate change and withdrew the US from the Paris global climate accord.

Source: New Zealand Herald January 28, 2021 00:22 UTC