Within two years of taking office, Biden reestablished the US leadership on climate change. President Biden drove the foremost critical national climate activity in American history, including passing the notable Inflation Reduction Act, marking the Bilateral Infrastructure Act, ratifying the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, advancing a new era of clean American manufacturing, and increasing energy for security in the region and abroad, lowering clean energy costs for consumers in the United States and around the world.
This effort reflects President Biden's conviction that climate, energy, food, and water security go hand in hand. As Russia's out-of-line war against Ukraine disrupts energy markets, weighs on the economy with rising costs, and threatens vulnerable countries with severe food shortages, efforts to accelerate climate action, build a clean energy economy, climate-smart agriculture, and global sustainability are intensifying and it will be very difficult.
Despite the various efforts and plans that Biden has made to improve the climate issue, he still faces challenges from the United States Senate itself, because according to the Senate climate change is indeed a problem that needs to be addressed, but no major law is needed to handle it. According to an analytical statement by the Rhodium Group, climate action plans will miss the president's targets without a major climate law.
The participation and activities of the United States at the COP27 summit in Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt, the re-signing of the Paris Agreement, and the return of the United States as a leader in plans to tackle climate change can also be said to Biden's political strategies to demonstrate his leadership in the international arena. This step will indirectly also be a stimulant for other countries, especially developed countries to participate and follow the same strategy. None other than that, the aim is to show the power and influence in international politics.
