With Democrats poised to take control of both houses of Congress, Biden's opportunities to tackle climate change and other major environmental problems have greatly expanded. But given the closely divided Senate, the question is by how much.
Climate investment goals, green job targets and key decarbonization deadlines were missing from an environmental platform published yesterday by a joint team of Joe Biden backers and Sen. Bernie Sanders supporters.
Policymakers are pushing investors to do more to ensure their portfolio choices help to meet the 2015 Paris Agreement to combat climate change by limiting planetary warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius, and preferably to 1.5C.
