Election 2024: Full Climate Report Card for Biden/Harris Administration
The Administration only gets a B-, but the alternative was a clear F. The choice is stark.
The United States is approaching an election which will be pivotal for climate action, both domestically and globally. Over the past several days, CleanTechnica has been running a series on several major areas of policy, assessing the political actions back to George W. Bush’ Presidency. Now it’s time to draw up the report card for the candidates and their platforms as they currently exist.
The contrast is, of course, stark. While not perfect, the Biden–Harris administration have delivered enormous movement on climate action, while Trump’s first term and promises are a sea of red, a tsunami of climate action failure. To be clear, that was true of most files under Trump from any objective perspective, whether it was the economy, response to the global pandemic, international relations or human rights.
Treaties & Agreements
During the Obama administration, the US played a key role in the 2015 Paris Agreement and the…
