Vinayak Barot
NEW DELHI, Sep 15: Opening a new issue in the presidential election to woo the American voters, Democratic Party’s presidential candidate Joe Biden promised to take the United States back on the table on the Paris climate deal if voted to power. “The US to rejoin Paris climate deal if Democrats voted to power,” he said.
President Donald Trump administration while claiming that the 2015 Paris climate deal had put an “unfair economic burden” on Americans, had in November, last year, notified the United Nations that the US would withdraw from the agreement. The notification begins a one-year process of exiting the global climate change accord, culminating the day after the 2020 US election on November 3.
Criticising the Trump administration on the decision, Joe Biden while making a policy speech on climate change said, “While Donald Trump turned against our allies, I’ll bring us back into the Paris Agreement. I will put us back in the business of leading the world on climate change and I will challenge every other country to up the ante on climate commitments,”
“Where he reverses the Obama-Biden fuel efficiency standards, he picks big oil. He picks in big oil companies over American workers, even when the automobile industry agreed,” Joe Biden added.
To counter Joe Biden over the Paris climate deal, President Trump said he was open to another climate deal “on terms that are fair to the United States”.
Biden said he would put the US on a path to achieve a carbon pollution free electricity sector by 2035 that no future president can come along and turn back.