Fight against climate change could benefit from Biden’s presidency in the US

The announcement of the victory of Joe Biden in the elections for President of the United States could be good news for the fight against the effects of climate change.

Immediately after the internationalmedia publications that declared the Democratic candidate as the winner over the current president, Donald Trump, the American Council for an Efficient Energy Economy (ACEEE) issued a press release congratulating Biden on his electoral victory. and highlighted the “historic opportunity” that the North American country has to base its economy on the use of “energy efficiency, to promote urgent and necessary actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that affect the world today.”

“We urge the Biden administration to work together with a closely divided Congress to incorporate energy efficiency into a recovery package, to invest in weatherizing homes and in the research and development of energy-saving technologies, and to pursue new bipartisan transportation and energy legislation. We also urge the Biden administration to adopt strong energy-saving standards for light bulbs, appliances, equipment, cars, trucks, and other vehicles.”

In a tweet published on November 4 by the then candidate, Biden alluded to the decision of the Donald Trump administration to abandon the Paris Agreement. “Today, the Trump Administration officially abandoned the Paris Climate Agreement. And in exactly 77 days, a Biden Administration will rejoin him,” he said.

For its part, The New York Times criticized, at the time, the attitude of the still US president to the care of the environment. “Trump has been determined to destroy the environmental policies of the North American country to produce fossil fuels on a large scale, while the world continues to burn, flood and suffer the imminent – and obvious – ravages of climate change,” the newspaper mentioned.

During his election campaign, Joe Biden promised to invest “two billion dollars to fight climate change,” as well as leave the Arctic intact, have a control in the drilling of land and invest in sustainable infrastructure, with clean fuels and cars, in addition to return to the Paris Agreement.