(McGrath, 2021)
At a major summit, US president Joe Biden has announced that this decade is the “decisive decade”. This decade is the decade we make decisions that will decide the future of our environment. Biden has committed to halving the US's emissions within this decade (Charter, 2021). "The US isn't waiting, we are resolving to take action." (McGrath, 2021).
But it isn’t just the US that is taking action. In a thrilling speech, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that addressing the issue of climate change is “not all about some expensive politically-correct green act of ‘bunny hugging’… this is about growth and jobs” (CarbonBrief, 2021). Mr. Johnson also called President Biden’s commitment “game-changing” (McGrath, 2021).
Although President Trump had withdrawn the US from the Paris Agreement on November 4th 2020, President Biden had vowed to join back the agreement on his first day in office, later proving it wasn’t a false promise with him signing the executive order on January 20th 2021 (Wikipedia, n.d).
Furthermore, more countries have stepped up. Canada has pledged to limit their emissions by 40-45% by the end of the decade, Japan has promised to lower their emissions by 46% by 2030, and South Korea announced they would stop financing the building of coal-fired power stations overseas (McGrath, 2021).
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