Factbox: Biden could take quick first steps on long climate policy road


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  • Sunday, 08 Nov 2020

FILE PHOTO: Democratic U.S. presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks about climate change as an insect flies by during a campaign event held outside the Delaware Museum of Natural History in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., September 14, 2020. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Joe Biden has promised sweeping measures to make the U.S. economy carbon neutral by 2050 to put the United States on a path to cut emissions as deeply as scientists say is necessary to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

The agenda to reverse President Donald Trump's legacy of climate deregulation would likely start with some easy wins, such as rejoining the Paris Agreement, but would become more complex as his administration ventures further into regulating greenhouse gas emissions down toward net-zero.

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