While the United States officially left the Paris climate agreement on Wednesday, Joe Biden, on course to become the next president of the United States, said overnight that his country would return to this international treaty as soon as his eventual investiture.
The United States effectively left the Paris climate agreement on Wednesday and a possible return of Washington to this international treaty is suspended from the still unknown result of the American presidential election.
A victory for Joe Biden and the world's largest economy would immediately join international efforts against global warming again.
"Today the Trump administration officially left the Paris climate agreement. And in exactly 77 days a Biden administration will join it," he tweeted.
Today, the Trump Administration officially left the Paris Climate Agreement.
And in exactly 77 days, a Biden Administration will join it.
https://t.co/L8UJimS6v2
- Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) November 5, 2020
A re-election of Donald Trump and the country would, on the other hand, go it alone for at least four more years.
Biden presented $ 1.7 trillion plan
Following the presidential election on Tuesday, the counting of the votes continues in several states and neither of the two candidates has yet been declared the winner.
Joe Biden has presented a plan of 1.7 trillion dollars for the United States to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.
Since his arrival at the White House, the Republican president has for his part defended the fossil fuel industry, questioned scientists on climate change and unraveled several environmental safeguards.
If Donald Trump were to obtain a second term, the fight for the climate will pass through states, municipalities and companies, whose initiatives, even without the support of the federal government, could allow the United States to reduce its carbon emissions. by 37% by 2030, according to a recent report by America's Pledge.
"There is a growing coalition of countries in favor of carbon neutrality"
If Joe Biden wins, the United States will have to officially notify the UN of their desire to return to the Paris Agreement.
"There is a growing coalition of countries in favor of carbon neutrality by the middle of the century," United Nations spokesman Stéphane Dujarric noted on Wednesday, citing recent commitments by the United Nations. South Korea and Japan.
"Our support, our belief in an actively implemented Paris agreement remains unchanged," he added.
Notifying the UN will be "the easy part," Andrew Light, environmental adviser to former Democratic President Barack Obama, told AFP, stressing that the world's leading power will be left "out of trade" when the UK Uni will host the international climate conference COP26 on December 12.
One of the objectives of the Paris agreement, signed in December 2015 by 195 countries, is to contain the rise in temperatures to 1.5 ° C compared to the pre-industrial era.