Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama says newly sworn-in US President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris have more than just a chance to bring America back into the Paris Agreement.
He made this comment on his official Twitter account yesterday and said “the two leaders can save the planet as we know it”.
“From the frontlines in Fiji, that commitment can’t come soon enough,” Mr Bainimarama tweeted, After being sworn-in yesterday, Mr Biden signed an executive order for the US to rejoin the Paris Agreement, a process that is expected to take 30 days.
“We’re going to combat climate change in a way we have not before,” Mr Biden said in the Oval Office yesterday.
Foreign leaders hailed Mr Biden’s first moves as a powerful signal that the US – the largest contributor to global warming in history – intends to restart its efforts to lower pollution levels and to restore the international order upended by former president Donald Trump.
Meanwhile, the US was the first nation in the world to formally withdraw from the Paris climate agreement last year.
