“There is still a lot of work to be done to ensure that the target of (limiting global warming to) 1.5 degrees remains within our reach, but today’s outcome brings us significantly closer to that goal,” Biden said in a statement from the House of Representatives. Branca (presidency).
In the same note, the North American leader declared that he had launched “the world’s largest investment” against climate change, through a major bill on energy transition.
Joe Biden – who is also committed to lowering the price of gasoline in the United States – reiterates in the same statement that climate change is an “existential threat.”
“As America has always done, we will turn crisis into opportunity, creating jobs in the clean energy sector, revitalizing communities and improving quality of life,” he insisted.
The Democratic politician, who is running for re-election in next year’s presidential elections, is regularly criticized by Republicans – some of whom openly question climate change – for his energy transition policies.
The United States is currently the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases in absolute terms, after China. But taking into account historical emissions, that is, cumulative since 1850, they remain ahead.
Source: DN
