Biden: No reversal of US clean energy advances ahead of Trump presidency
Al Jazeera
Biden became the first sitting US president to visit the Amazon, where he emphasised fight against climate change.
United States President Joe Biden has witnessed the devastation of drought up close as he became the first sitting US president to visit the Amazon rainforest, declaring that nobody can reverse “the clean energy revolution that’s under way in America”.
His comments come even as the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump is poised to scale back efforts to combat climate change.
The huge Amazon region, which is about the size of Australia, stores massive amounts of the world’s carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas driving climate change. But development is rapidly depleting the world’s largest tropical rainforest, and rivers are drying up.
On Sunday, Biden said the fight against climate change has been a defining cause of his presidency. He has pushed for cleaner air, water and energy, including legislation that marked the most substantial federal investment in history to fight global warming.
But he is about to hand the nation over to Republican Trump, who is highly unlikely to prioritise the Amazon or anything related to climate change, which he has cast as a “hoax”.
