President Biden excursions the Museu da Amazonia, a rainforest protect in Manaus, Brazil, on Nov. 17, 2024, earlier than heading to Rio de Janeiro for the G20 Summit.
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MANAUS, Brazil — President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to roll again President Biden’s clear vitality incentives when he takes workplace in January. However on Sunday, Biden used a visit to the Amazon to defiantly assert that his legacy on addressing local weather change couldn’t be simply reversed.
“Some may seek to deny or delay the clean energy revolution that’s underway in America, but nobody — nobody — can reverse it. Nobody,” Biden stated in remarks from a rainforest protect.
Biden is the primary sitting U.S. president to go to the Amazon, a fast cease that was meant as a capstone for his work on local weather, made between two summits he’s attending in South America.
President Biden flies over the Amazon in his Marine One helicopter throughout his go to to Manaus, Brazil, on Nov. 17, 2024.
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He took an aerial tour of a area that has been by two years of drought, and checked out areas the place bushes had been illegally harvested. Then, he walked alongside a mud path by the sting of the rainforest, assembly with indigenous leaders and Nobel laureate Dr. Carlos Nobre, who research how local weather change impacts the Amazon.
Noting that he’s about to depart workplace, Biden checked off his local weather accomplishments, noting that his clear vitality investments may assist the US lower carbon emissions in half by 2030.
“I will leave my successor and my country the strong foundation to build on, if they choose to do so,” he stated, arguing that clear vitality investments had been serving to create jobs. “The question now is, which government will stand in the way and which will seize the enormous economic opportunity?”
President Biden walks by a protect on the sting of the Amazon rainforest in Manaus, Brazil, on Nov. 17, 2024.
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Trump left the Paris accord. Biden rejoined it. Now, Trump is poised to stop it once more.
On Biden’s first day in workplace, he signed an order for the US to rejoin the Paris local weather settlement to restrict greenhouse gasoline emissions. Trump had withdrawn from the accord when he first took workplace in 2017 — and he has promised to depart it once more when he takes workplace in January.
Trump has vowed to intestine the Inflation Discount Act, Biden’s landmark local weather laws that incorporates the most important federal clear vitality funding in U.S. historical past.
The White Home has been working to attempt to get funding, initiatives and rules on the books earlier than Biden leaves, anticipating the modifications forward.
On Sunday, Biden stated he had fulfilled a pledge to extend worldwide local weather assist to $11 billion. He met with officers from Mombak Gestora de Recursos, an organization replanting bushes with investments from massive tech firms like Microsoft, which get carbon discount emission credit, in change. The U.S. authorities is giving Mombak a $37.5 million mortgage for its venture.
And he introduced $50 million for Brazil’s Amazon Fund, bringing the whole U.S. contribution to $100 million. Biden final yr had pledged $500 million to the fund over 5 years.
Requested in regards to the chance of the incoming Trump administration fulfilling the remainder of that pledge, a senior U.S. official advised reporters touring with Biden: “Who knows? Maybe he’ll come down here and see the forest and see the damage being done from the drought and other things and change his mind about climate change.”
