Green recovery led by industry or government – America’s choice between two future

(EurActiv, 31 Oct 2020) With the American presidential election next week, the climate policy of Joe Biden and lack of policy from Donald Trump has come into the spotlight: America will have to adapt to green technologies to keep up with the world and the question is whether its administration will dig its heels in or not.

While COVID-19 has overshadowed the election, it has also been hailed as America’s climate election with young people involved in climate movements now old enough to vote and climate issues covered in debates like never before.

“We’re all in agreement that a Biden scenario will be smoother, but even under a Mr Trump scenario, climate action will still proceed,” said Peter Betts, associate fellow of energy, environment and resources programmes at Chatham House, a think-tank in London.

“A lot of this stuff is just happening anyway with renewable energy, electric vehicles and so on,” he added.

Behind the veil of Trump’s anti-climate rhetoric, America has been progressing, if slowly, towards greener technology. Coal production has declined more under his administration than it did under President Obama’s.

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