Biden Will Rejoin the Paris Agreement Global Climate Pact — What Does That Mean for Travel?
Photo Credit: Heads of delegations at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris. Flickr / Presidencia de la Republica Mexicana
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The Paris Agreement binds politics and climate change. President-elect Joe Biden now gets to have a say in how much greener travel becomes.
President-elect Joe Biden will reverse his predecessor's decision to pull out of a landmark global climate pact.
As election voting drew to a close on November 4, so too did the country’s official participation in the Paris Agreement. But Biden has signaled his intention to rejoin it, in keeping with his campaign manifesto, and the country's U-turn will likely impact the wider travel industry.
The agreement was negotiated by 196 countries during a United Nations conference in Paris in December 2015 — and came into effect on November 4, 2016. It calls on those countries to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change, with travel perceived as a major contributor to global warming.
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The goal is to limit the warming to below 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 C) above pre-industrial levels, and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 C), recognizi
