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Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee business meeting on October 15, 2020, in Washington, DC (Getty Images)
As Joe Biden took the oath to become the 46th President of the United States, he spent his first day in office signing a slew of executive orders reversing Donald Trump s policies. One of those executive orders saw Biden declare that the United States would reenter the Paris Agreement a global accord of nations joining together to combat climate change. Senator Ted Cruz could not pass up the moment to slam Biden, saying in his statement that the Paris Agreement will harm the livelihoods of Americans, but more hilariously, inferring that it only applied to French people.
US rejoining Paris climate agreement will galvanise investment in ‘green economy’, say managers
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By Madeleine Taylor | 21/01/2021 - 5:42pm
President Joe Biden signed an executive order to reinstate the US in the Paris climate agreement on his first day in office, raising investors’ expectations of a surge in the sustainable investment sector.
It will take 30 days before the US officially re-joins the climate accord, but the Biden administration has also signalled that it will push forward a raft of environmental measures including a USD2 trillion spending package, revising rules that limit the ability of pension funds to invest sustainably, and reconsidering carbon pricing.
Applications open for volunteers at Cop26 climate change summit
Karen Donaldson is encouraging others to sign up to volunteer (COP26/PA)
Volunteer applications are open for the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (Cop26) which will be held in Glasgow in November.
The international summit will take place at the SEC from November 1 to 12, and Glasgow City Council is looking for around 1,000 volunteers to support the global event.
The climate talks are expected to bring together the largest gathering of heads of state ever hosted in the UK, alongside climate experts and campaigners, to agree a coordinated global action plan to tackle the climate emergency.
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