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Joe Biden’s Climate Change Challenge

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Date01 March 2022
AuthorElizabeth Bomberg
Published date01 March 2022
DOI10.1177/20419058221091636
30 POLITICAL INSIGHT • APRIL 2022
On the US presidential campaign
trail in late October 2020, Joe
Biden declared that climate
change was ‘the number one
issue facing humanity’. The then Democrat
nominee promised to bring about one
of the most sweeping, ambitious set of
changes to climate and environmental
policy in US history. So how has the
President’s climate actions in oce matched
Joe Biden’s Climate
Change Challenge
President Biden came into the White House promising sweeping
changes to tackle climate change but instead has found himself
battling institutional inertia and the limits of presidential power,
writes Elizabeth Bomberg.
his campaign rhetoric? The short answer is:
mixed. Delivery has been uneven. Promised
changes have yet to materialise.
But Biden’s rst year in oce illustrates
something deeper: the distinctive
challenges of environmental and climate
policy in the context of the institutional
inertia and constraints endemic to US
policymaking, and the limits to executive
power. While not fatal to progress, these
challenges may require US environmental
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