Biden’s Foreign Policy Casts a Long Shadow

JOINT Brief nº. 9 (January 2022)

Under Biden, the United States has again become very active in global governance frameworks. It re-joined the Paris Agreement on climate change2 and in the runup to the COP26 meeting in Glasgow made an important pledge, alongside the EU, to significantly bring down emissions of methane, a high-polluting gas. The difficulty in enacting an ambitious domestic climate agenda, however, hampered the Biden administration’s efforts to have stricter commitments to reducing greenhouse gas emissions approved at the Glasgow conference.