On the night of Thursday Swedish time, the news came: The US Congress looks like it will be able to pass a large reform package regarding the climate. Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, who had blocked the proposal, surprisingly changed his mind and agreed with the party.
The package includes climate investments equivalent to almost SEK 3,800 billion, which will go to wind power and electric vehicles, among other things. The investment must be paid for by a company tax.
New meeting in November
The announcement that Joe Biden now seems to be getting his reform package through is also seen as a major success for the global climate negotiations. Because in November, the next climate summit, COP27, begins in Sharm-El-Sheikh in Egypt.
– If the US had not done its homework, the developing countries would not have been prepared to do their part at all and then they could have almost canceled, Erika Bjerström said in Aktuellt.