However, the American climate journalist Eric Holthaus argues Biden’s climate agenda could be transformative from day one, even with a conservative Supreme Court and Republican control of the Senate. His climate plan alone has the potential to reduce global atmospheric temperature by about 0.1C. Expand Close Reversal: Donald Trump pulled the US out of the Paris Climate Agreement / FacebookTwitterEmailWhatsapp Reversal: Donald Trump pulled the US out of the Paris Climate AgreementOn the international stage, Trump’s withdrawal from the UN Paris Climate Agreement scuppered climate action well before the US’s official departure this month. President-elect Biden has promised to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement on the first day of his presidency, allowing the US back into international climate negotiations as early as mid-February. Ideally, Biden would get congressional support to rejoin the Paris Agreement and make it harder for any future Republican administration to pull out again.

Source: Irish Independent November 14, 2020 05:03 UTC