Biden’s Last-Gasp Paris Climate Push: Virtue Signaling Before Trump Changes the Game
6 hours ago Charles Rotter
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-sets-new-paris-climate-target-that-trump-is-expected-ignore-2024-12-19/In a development that feels less like genuine policy and more like a desperate exercise in virtue signaling, President Biden’s administration has announced an ambitious new climate target under the Paris Agreement. According to Reuters, the goal is to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 61% to 66% below 2005 levels by 2035—a lofty aim announced just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump returns to the Oval Office, promising to undo much of Biden’s climate agenda.
This move is being sold as “durable” and “achievable” by the administration, with officials touting the supposed permanence of measures embedded in the Inflation Reduction Act and infrastructure bill. John Podesta, Biden’s senior climate advisor, even claimed the administration’s investments would “continue to pay dividends for our economy and our climate for years to come”. Of course, whether these “dividends” will materialize—or whether the whole scheme is more likely to drain the treasury—is another question entirely.
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