GLOBE & MAIL
GLOBE & MAIL: US once again a climate ally
Joe Biden’s policies and actions can cure Canadians from a sense of climate superiority
On November 4, the day after the presidential election, the US officially withdrew from the Paris Agreement on climate change. As vote counting tilted towards a Joe Biden victory, the country’s departure from the climate accord became one of the final acts of Donald Trump’s deleterious presidency.
Rejoining the Paris deal will be among Biden’s first moves as president — a declarative break with the Trump era. It will be a symbolic start for a president who has promised action on the environment. Biden has pledged $2-trillion to wean the country off climate-heating fuels. In mid-December, when he introduced his environmental team, he called climate change “the existential threat of our time”...
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