Biden would be good for climate action, but Trump catastrophic

US President Donald Trump waves while walking on the South Lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, October 20 2020. Picture: BLOOMBERG/EPA/ALEX EDELMAN

Under the 2015 Paris Agreement, almost 200 countries pledged to work toward limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. That goal has since slipped further away, as climate-warming emissions continued to increase. Trump rejected the agreement altogether and the US is set to exit it on November 4.

China, the world’s largest emitter, says it will become carbon neutral by 2060, but has not yet revised its climate plan for the next decade. “Other countries will begin to judge the administration’s level of ambition based on that,” Podesta told Reuters. But that “needs to just be the starting bid”, said Thom Woodroofe, a former diplomat in UN climate talks, now a senior advisor at the Asia Society Policy Institute. A “united approach” from the EU and the US could push Beijing to go further, particularly on near-term emissions cuts, he said.

But restoring diplomacy on climate could face obstacles, not least because of the frictions between the US and China under Trump on other issues.

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