The presidency of Joe Biden, so we're told, marks the return of the United States to a position

of global leadership on climate change. And with two stimulus packages already delivered

all in the works on COVID and jobs and a third one on the way, many pundits now say that Biden,

who ran from the center when seeking his party's nomination, has exceeded expectations.

But do Joe Biden's actions go far enough to tackle climate change and American decline?

Or are these measures, however, superficially impressive, merely a sticking plaster?

With me to discuss that today, Adam Tuz, professor at Columbia University in all through

of crashed, how a decade of financial crises changed the world. Adam, welcome back to Downstream.

We've won to discuss Biden for a while. I think you're the outstanding, I'd say,

Anglophone person to talk about it, but also you happen to be a Brit.

We've won to talk about for a while. Of course, his first 100 days, I think, comes in on Thursday.

But it was the global climate summit last week on Earth Day, which saw some really impressive

rhetoric from the president. So it's going to watch that now. It's about a minute

might seem a bit long, but actually really important words that are being said by the president.

So we're going to go to that and then come back and I'll ask a few questions on Adam.

I'd make bold investments in their people and clean energy future.

We'll win the good jobs tomorrow and make their economies more resilient and more competitive.

So let's run that race. Win more, win more sustainable future than we have now, overcome the

existential crisis of our times. We know just how critically important that is,

because scientists tell us that this is the decisive decade.

This is the decade we must make decisions that will avoid the worst consequences of the climate

crisis. We must try to keep the earth's temperature and to an increase of to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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