A win for Joe Biden in Tuesday's US Presidential election will be a bigger game-changer for the global effort to de-carbonise economies, than the direction of travel for the US economy, analysts have said.
Biden is widely perceived as the environment-friendly choice for President, having put forward what head of investment at the international business of Federated Hermes Eoin Murray called "the most ambitious climate plan of any presidential candidate in history". The former vice president has announced a four-year, $2trn climate plan, pledging among other things to make the US a 100% clean energy economy and reach net-zero emissions by no later than 2050. By contrast, incumbent Donald Trump has already pulled the US out of the Paris Climate Agreement, with the country set to leave the...
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