Biden embarks on difficult journey to ‘green’ America—Davos
The new president’s green agenda will help restore the US as a global force for climate change leadership
The US will become a much bigger force in the global battle to beat climate change under President Joe Biden’s ambitious green plans—but it will not be a smooth journey, delegates heard at Davos Energy Week. In a keynote speech on Thursday, Gregory Wetstone, president and CEO at Acore, a US non-profit energy transition organisation, said: “Biden's inaugural remarks and day-one executive actions reflect a commitment to climate leadership that is unprecedented for an American president.” Just hours into his presidency on 20 January, Biden started the process for the US to rejoin the 2016 Paris Agreement to keep global warming below 2°C compared with pre-industrial levels, with a further aspira
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