A Review of Biden’s Foreign Policies

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A Review of Biden’s Foreign Policies
During Joe Biden’s presidential election campaigns, he outlined some foreign policy objectives to be implemented during his first 100 days as the president. One aspect of the policy objectives outlined relates to addressing the prevailing climate crisis: the Biden administration is determined to rejoin the Paris Climate Accord and lead a major diplomatic push to increase the ambitions of countries; climate targets. Biden’s intent on convincing other world nations to make more ambitious national pledges to reduce emissions. Realism is one theory of international relations that has underpinned much of U.S. foreign policy and national security. It is founded on the premise that countries act as unitary rational parties in an anarchic space with no unified order by capitalizing on interests based on power politics nations to make more ambitious national pledges to reduce emissions. This essay provides a review of President Joe Biden's foreign policy initiatives on climate change domestically and internationally.
Joe Biden has cautioned that climate change posed an existential threat to human civilization as we know it and have also encouraged other world leaders to start on a revolutionary shift to clean energy. While doubts persist about the U.S. president's capacity to carry out this agenda at home. However, these arguments are not as persuasive as their positions on war, security contests, and great power rivalry in international politics (Khan 16).  Poorer nations want wealthy nations to pay for renewable energy that will reduce their carbon emissions. This is a critical problem since these nations, primarily located in the southern hemisphere, are experiencing the most severe effects of climate change. Nevertheless, the wealthy nations are unwilling to raise government spending and want global development financial institutions and the private industry to supply the majority of funding. Biden has claimed that wealthier, large polluters like the U.S. bear an enormous obligation to assist smaller nations with the increased floods, fires, and heatwaves exacerbated by global warming.
Moreover, the president highlighted that his planned climate policy, which Congress passed, would be the largest investment in climate mitigation undertaken by any advanced nation. The Climate Crisis is an external problem that affects all countries, necessitating the formation of a worldwide coalition to combat it. America's foreign strategy on climate change should take a pragmatic approach, involving both traditional and unconventional allies. Climate change's direct and indirect consequences necessitate concerted action by all countries, developing and developed alike. This coalition should not be focused on re-establishing world order or resolving bilateral issues. Additionally, it should work to persuade all governments to strengthen their commitment to combating climate change.
To date, Joe Biden’s administration has been dubbed the most ambitious U.S. administration with a planned $1.7 trillion investment in bringing the United States to zero emissions by 2050. Biden has asserted that it wil...