American elections. What if the
United States takes the climate seriously
In exactly seventy-seven days, a Biden administration will return
to the Paris climate accord. It was announced, it has been confirmed since
Wednesday, November 4: the first initiative of the Democratic candidate, if
elected president, will be to join the global fight against global warming.
On the same day - ironically calculated by Biden - the Americans
officially walked out of the deal, aimed at containing the temperature rise to
1.5 ° C compared to the pre-industrial era. A withdrawal commented by a joint
declaration by Chile, France, Italy, the United Kingdom and the UN: There is no
greater responsibility than to protect our planet and our inhabitants against
the threat climate change ...
Cop26 in Glasgow
The rest of the world did not actually wait for Donald Trump's
United States to face this global challenge. The European Union, with its
ambitious Green Deal, has taken the lead. Xi Jinping's China too, by committing
to climate neutrality in 2060. Even the bubbling British Boris Johnson takes
his role seriously, by promising to connect every household in the United
Kingdom to renewable energies within ten years ” .
The country of Boris Johnson will host the Cop26, in Glasgow, in
November 2021. An appointment, delayed for a year by the Covid-19 pandemic, and
which must record reductions in greenhouse gas emissions ( GES), cause of
global warming, more ambitious on the part of all States.
"Every tenth of a degree counts"
One of the first to welcome the return of the United States - 15%
of global GHG emissions - in this global effort, with caution given the
developments in the American poll, is Frenchman Laurent Fabius. The current
president of the Constitutional Council devoted three years to obtaining the
signature of the 197 countries, during the Cop21, in 2015, in Paris. The
powerful US presence would ensure a coordinated and global revival of climate
action, he said.
This is also the opinion of the Dutch researcher Niklas Höhne. A
member of the Climate Action Tracker group, he analyzed Joe Biden's
"climate" program and estimated that it alone could reduce
temperature increases by 0.1 ° C. The Democrat is planning $ 1.7 trillion for a
green stimulus. International climate policy will be a two-way street in this
election, the scientist said on Twitter. Every tenth of a degree counts.
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