Joe Biden vs climate change
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
How the US is set to return to the fight against global warming. Justin Rowlatt speaks to Todd Stern, the US special envoy for climate change under Barack Obama, and to Rache Kyte, dean of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in the US, about plans to reverse the environmental policies of the Trump era. Christiana Figueres, who negotiated the Paris Agreement on climate change for the UN, tells us why she's excited by the return of the US to the global stage.
(Photo: Wind turbines near Palm Springs, California, Credit: Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Business Daily from the BBC World Service. I'm Justin Rowlatt, and today we'll be asking |
| 0:07.4 | what the new US President Joe Biden will mean for the planet's climate. Because perhaps the most |
| 0:13.6 | smoking policy you turn, the new president will perform as he takes over from Donald Trump, |
| 0:19.5 | will be on tackling global warming. |
| 0:22.6 | I mean, let's be honest, climate wasn't a huge priority for the Donald. |
| 0:27.9 | All of this with the global warming and a lot of it's a hoax. It's a hoax. I mean, it's a money-making |
| 0:33.1 | industry, okay? |
| 0:34.1 | Whereas for President Biden, it is one of his key policy targets. |
| 0:38.3 | And the battle to save our planet by getting climate under control. |
| 0:42.5 | So what effect will this policy reversal have on America and the world? |
| 0:47.9 | That is here on Business Daily on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:54.7 | I asked one of President-elect Joe Biden's climate team last week |
| 0:58.8 | whether tackling climate change would be a core part of the new president's foreign policy. |
| 1:04.2 | Well, it already is, came the answer. |
| 1:06.6 | My Biden insider told me the President-elect had mentioned it in every single call he received |
| 1:12.3 | from world leaders congratulating him on his victory. The new president has already said the US |
| 1:18.4 | will be rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement, which aims remember to keep climate change |
| 1:23.5 | to as close to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels as possible. |
| 1:29.0 | He's planning a conference of major emitters within 100 days |
| 1:32.4 | and says America is now aiming to be net zero by 2050. |
| 1:37.4 | He really does mean business on the climate issue, says Todd Stern. |
| 1:41.9 | Mr. Stern is himself democratic royalty. He was President Obama's climate envoy, |
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