The ESG Weekly: Joe Biden and the Climate

President‐elect Joe Biden has indicated that, early in his administration, he will sign executive orders focused on combating climate change: He will rejoin the Paris Agreement, reverse the 2017 executive order by the Trump administration that called on federal agencies to dismantle their climate policies, instruct agencies to develop new methane limits for oil and gas wells, reinstate and strengthen fuel economy standards for automobiles, and to tighten efficiency standards for buildings. We discuss what all these actions mean for the ESG world.