NEW DELHI : Energy policy planners in India have been keeping a close watch on the US Presidential election, with Democrat Joe Biden promising a ‘Clean Energy Revolution’ and incumbent Donald Trump’s pull out from the Paris climate change agreement formally coming into force on Wednesday.
Trump has pulled the US out of a historic 2015 accord with the energy-rich Iran, which had been inked to curb the West Asian country’s nuclear programme in return for ending sanctions.
Biden’s campaign promise includes ensuring that the US “reaches net-zero emissions no later than 2050″, recommitting to the Paris Agreement on the first day of his administration, and “a federal investment of $1.7 trillion over the next ten years.”
