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When Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, one of his great electoral promises was that the United States would abandon the Paris Agreement. Instead, he wanted to focus on increasing oil and coal production, contrary to what the countries of the world agreed to when they signed the agreement.
With the agreement, the countries stated that they want to limit the increase in global temperature to less than two degrees, jointly reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Donald Trump and the United States began the withdrawal process on November 4, 2019 and formally withdrew from the agreement on Thursday, November 4, 2020, as the first country in the world.
“I cannot support a deal that punishes the United States, and it does,” Trump said in 2017.
Biden wants to connect again
The Global Climate Agreement was signed in December 2015 by President Barack Obama, when Joe Biden was vice president. Now Biden, in the event of an electoral victory, wants to rejoin the deal and, according to the BBC, the United States can return within 30 days of being sworn in.
If the United States joins the Paris Agreement, they are expected to announce more ambitious cuts in their emissions by 2030. But it can be difficult and complicated. To overcome various climate measures, Joe Biden will need the support of Republicans, writes CNN.
Biden’s long road to the 2020 presidential election
Here’s the Expressen climate editorial office
