The United States rejoins the Paris Agreement on climate
Environment — di Andrea Barolini
President Joe Biden has initiated the procedure for the United States to rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate. The Keystone XL pipeline has been cancelled.
The United States rejoins the Paris Agreement on climate
President Joe Biden has initiated the procedure for the United States to rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate. The Keystone XL pipeline has been cancelled.
The United States will rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate within a few weeks. As promised, the new president Joe Biden has initiated the procedure to bring his country back alongside the vast majority of nations across the world. The American diplomatic service will now send an official letter to the Unfccc, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and after one month US delegations will be able to return to participating in the negotiations for the concrete implementation of the Agreement.
Biden Day 1 planned actions:
• Rejoin Paris Agreement
• Repeal Trump travel ban
• Halt border wall construction
• Mask mandate
• Extend eviction freeze
• Unveil immigration plan
• Extend student loan pause
• Revoke permit for Keystone XL pipeline
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• Rejoin Paris Agreement
• Repeal Trump travel ban
• Halt border wall construction
• Mask mandate
• Extend eviction freeze
• Unveil immigration plan
• Extend student loan pause
• Revoke permit for Keystone XL pipeline
nbcnews.to/3it55ia
The withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on climate sought by Donald Trump in 2017
Donald Trump had announced to the world his intention to abandon it in June 2017, confirming his resolutely climate-sceptic positions. To withdraw from the Agreement, however, the procedure set out by the United Nations required years. And it became effective in November 2020, precisely when Americans were voting in the presidential election that crowned the Democrat Biden.
It should be noted that during the years of the Trump presidency, in any case, the American delegations that took part in the Cops, the United Nations world climate conferences, frequently obstructed the negotiations. The political withdrawal, in other words, preceded the formal one.
Biden's $2 trillion plan for climate and the environment
What the world now expects from the United States is for the political return to precede the formal one. The upcoming Cop 26 is scheduled for November in Glasgow. The challenge facing Joe Biden is to bring his country to that appointment with concrete progress already under way.
Today, President Biden rejoined the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
The plan presented during the election campaign by the Democratic politician gives grounds for optimism: it envisages setting the United States on course for 100 per cent renewable energy production and achieving carbon neutrality — the elimination of net CO2 emissions — by 2050. Biden has also promised to restore the environmental and climate protection laws adopted by Barack Obama during his two terms in office, which were wholly or partly dismantled by Trump. All of this backed by epoch-making funding of $2 trillion. The hope is that expectations will not be disappointed.
Biden also cancels the controversial Keystone XL pipeline project
Donald Trump's successor has also decreed the end of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline project. A gigantic undertaking, whose aim was to exploit one of the fossil sources most dangerous of all for the environment and for the climate: oil extracted from tar sands in the Canadian province of Alberta. The pipeline had been blocked for the first time by President Barack Obama in 2015, then relaunched by the Trump administration itself.
The Keystone pipeline is & always has been a disaster. I'm delighted that Joe Biden will cancel the Keystone permit on his first day in office. With all of the major crises facing America, we must never lose sight of the most existential threat facing our planet: climate change.
"We welcome President Biden's commitment to fighting climate change, but we are disappointed by the decision taken on Keystone XL," commented Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. According to whom "workers in Alberta, Saskatchewan and across Canada will always have our support. We are the United States' number one energy supplier and, as such, we contribute to American security and economic competitiveness, supporting jobs on both sides of the border." The disappointment in Ottawa is therefore palpable. It is no coincidence that the first foreign leader with whom Biden has an appointment is Trudeau himself.