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How ambitious is Joe Biden's pledge to cut US emissions by 50 per cent?


US President Joe Biden kicked off a global climate summit on Thursday with an announcement that the United States will cut emissions by 50 to 52 per cent by 2030. The target is roughly double that set by US President Barack Obama in 2015.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailed the pledge as a “game-changer.” And it’s certainly a reversal from Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump, who withdrew the United States from the Paris climate agreement and criticised wind energy.
But is the plan
actually ambitious? That depends on whether one considers national politics and economics, or international justice.
“It’s incredibly ambitious – both relative to what the United States has achieved so far (13 per cent in 2005-2019) but also relative to what we need to do en route to 2050,” Nikos Tsafos, interim director of the Energy Security and Climate Change Programme at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, told the  ....

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US and UN have few good options to respond to coup


The Straits Times
Nirmal Ghosh‍ US Bureau Chief In Washington
PublishedFeb 4, 2021, 5:00 am SGT
https://str.sg/JrTT
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