The U.S. climate bill signed into law this week restores the country's credibility as a leading player in U.N. climate negotiations, international officials said.
The $430 billion bill passed by President Joe Biden on Tuesday, after more than a year of tense negotiations, lays out policies and investments to curb greenhouse gas emissions in the world's largest historical emitter.
The new bill "puts America on track to achieve our climate goals and encourage others in the world to increase their efforts," said John Kerry, U.S. special envoy on climate change, on Twitter. Bahamas Prime Minister Philip Davis said that both the United States and Australia, which passed its own climate change legislation earlier this month, had taken "historic" steps to address emissions even as global geopolitical and economic turmoil make some countries backslide on their climate goals.
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley told reporters following the summit that she hopes the new U.S. law will help Americans understand the severity of climate impacts to come, including stronger hurricanes that threaten island nations like hers.
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