Bloomberg: “Trump Can’t Turn Back the Clock on US Climate Emissions”
RFF President and CEO Billy Pizer comments on the future of US climate policy in this inauguration-day story.
Yet there are clear indicators that a climate skeptic in the White House can’t completely undo the nation’s roughly two-decades-long decline in emissions.
Whatever Trump does, “it’s not going to change this fundamental trend,” says Billy Pizer, president and CEO of the environment-focused research nonprofit Resources for the Future...
Moreover, Trump doesn’t have to reverse or even pause US emissions declines to tip the scales towards more catastrophic levels of warming... If and when climate action picks up again in the future, Pizer warns, “it may be more chaotic and expensive.”
...While it’s unclear exactly how much of Biden’s climate legacy will be undone, Pizer says, there’s little doubt that climate policies won’t advance or get stronger. “Time is being lost,” he says.
