Joe Biden<\/a>\u2019s transition team has announced in a statement today that has conducted virtual climate consultations with national security staff. According to a statement, Biden reiterated his intention to ensure climate change is a core national security priority.<\/p>\nThe Monday statement says, “Today President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris met virtually with national security and climate policy staff to discuss ways to meet the president-elect’s wide-ranging and ambitious international climate commitments, including rejoining the Paris Agreement on his first day in office.”<\/p>\n
In 2017, US President Donald Trump<\/a> announced that the US was exiting the UN-brokered Paris climate agreement, a move that officially took effect on November 4 this year. Biden has promised to recommit the US to the pact.<\/p>\nLast week, former US Secretary of State and newly-appointed Biden administration climate envoy, John Kerry, said that the international community must raise its ambition in fighting global environmental problems because the Paris Agreement alone cannot end the crisis.<\/p>\n
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