Biden ' s COVID-19 Plan Stresses Action on Climate Change

Former Vice President and 2020 Presidential Candidate Joe Biden has proposed a new plan to address the new coronavirus disease, COVID-19, and to prepare for future global health threats. The plan argues that aggressive action on climate change is needed to combat health threats such as infectious diseases. “The link between climate change and health security is well-documented and will create a growing threat to Americans,” according to Biden’s proposal. “A Biden Administration will recommit the United States to the Paris Agreement on day one and lead an effort to get every major country to ramp up the ambition of their domestic climate targets. As President, Biden will fully integrate climate change into our foreign policy and global health security strategies, and prioritize efforts to mitigate disease and migration challenges caused by a warming planet.” The plan cites the National Climate Assessment, a congressionally mandated scientific report prepared every four years by scientists from 13 federal agencies, which found that “climate change threatens human health and well-being in many ways, including impacts from increased extreme weather events, wildfire, decreased air quality, and illnesses transmitted by food, water, and diseases carriers such as mosquitoes and ticks.” It remains to be seen if the pandemic will still be active if Biden is sworn into office in January 2021, but he offered his plan as advice to the Trump adm...
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