Azerbaijan Biden: No one can reverse the climate revolution

US President Joe Biden has welcomed the resolutions of the World Climate Conference as "historic" and declared a relapse into the old days of climate policy to be hopeless before his designated successor Donald Trump takes office.

"While some may try to deny or delay the clean energy revolution underway in the United States and around the world, no one can reverse it - no one," Biden emphasized in a statement after the conference in Azerbaijan.

Against the backdrop of the upcoming change of power in the White House, there are fears that the USA, as the most politically and economically influential country in the world, could practically abandon any climate protection ambitions under Trump's leadership. During his first term in office, the Republican had decreed the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement - which was later reversed by Biden's government - and denied scientific facts on global warming and its catastrophic consequences, to the horror of experts. During the recent election campaign, Trump announced, among other things, a drastic expansion of oil and natural gas production in the USA.

Biden expressed his expectation that the United States will continue the fight against the climate crisis in the coming years - "through our states and cities, our businesses and our citizens, backed by laws that last". He did not include the future government in his list.

SDA