The Biden administration and like-minded governments around the world are racing to secure their global climate strategy against a potential rollback under Donald Trump — an effort that has gained urgency since the ground shifted under the U.S. presidential race a month ago.
The push includes leaning on the World Bank to unleash money for clean-energy projects in developing nations in a way that a future Trump administration could not unilaterally reverse.
U.S. officials are also talking with China about the more difficult task of cutting the huge amount of greenhouse gas pollution wafting from that country’s oil, gas and coal industries. And they’re working with other countries on the details of a $1 billion global effort to cut methane pollution that Vice President Kamala Harris, now the likely Democratic nominee, announced at last year’s U.N. climate summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Meanwhile, climate diplomats and environmentalists have been holding their first early discussions about ways to persuade deep-pocketed investors that green energy is still the wave of the future — even if Trump wins in November.
