His remarks came on Wednesday at the second Democrats debates on TV, which are held in Detroit (Michigan), TASS reported referring to CNN.
Speaking about the measures that he would take if he became head of state, Biden noted that he would return to the Paris Agreement. He also advocated the creation of 500 thousand charging stations for electric vehicles in the US. According to the former vice-president, this will make it possible to switch over to electric transport almost completely by 2030 in the country.
Biden also said that if he won the election, he would have allocated $ 400 billion for research to figure out how to prevent climate change on the planet. The former vice-president assured that he would take measures to stop using coal as an energy source in the US, as well as applying the fracking method (hydraulic fracturing) to extract hydrocarbons.
The Paris Climate Agreement was signed on December 12, 2015, in the French capital. The states that ratified this document agreed to prevent the average temperature on the planet from rising by 2100 by more than 2 degrees Celsius compared with the pre-industrial era. In 2018, US President Donald Trump withdrew from the deal as it hampers the development of the American economy.
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