Environment: what the US presidential election can change
Protesters launch a globe just before the start of the Paris Climate Conference in 2015. (Photo illustration) REUTERS / Alessandro Bianchi
By: Anne-Cécile Bras Follow
1 min
Donald Trump's environmental record is disastrous: more than a hundred laws and regulations abolished, withdrawal of the Paris Agreement, relaunch of hydrocarbon exploration ... Joe Biden, 46th US president-elect, must rebuild a credible environmental policy.
Beyond national issues, the environmental choices of the world's leading economic power impact the entire international community.
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Guests:
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Amy Dahan
, emeritus research director at CNRS, co-author with Stefan C. Aykut of
Gouverner le Climat
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20 years of climate negotiations
, published by Sciences Po University Press
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David Levaï
, associate researcher at IDDRI and visiting researcher at the United Nations Foundation based in Washington.
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With the victory of Joe Biden, the United States will return to the Paris Agreement on the climate
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