The Economist offers a brief on Joe Biden’s climate-friendly energy revolution and what it will take to fight rising temperatures.
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Despite having played a key role in the negotiations which produced the Paris agreement in 2015—an agreement that it is rejoining on February 19th—America has to date offered no comprehensive outline of the goals and strategies it will use to tackle greenhouse-gas emissions which, in 2019, were equivalent to 5.3bn tonnes of carbon dioxide.
Those emissions declined in 2020 by a staggering 9%, according to estimates from Bloombergnef, a data provider. But as the economy recovers they will bounce back quickly1.
The United States benefit from wide plains and long coasts for wind power, ample sunshine for solar farms across the South, rich forests to act as carbon sinks, expanses of land for producing new energy crops and well-understood reservoirs where emissions might be stored. It has magnificent human resources, too, and a history of rising to challenges, even if it sometimes needs a wake-up call to do so.
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1(2021, February 20). Decarbonising America - Joe Biden's climate-friendly energy .... Retrieved April 5, 2021, from https://www.economist.com/briefing/2021/02/20/joe-bidens-climate-friendly-energy-revolution
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