Joe Biden must do more than simply rejoin Paris climate agreement

On his first day in office, President Biden should bring together a group of G-20 leaders to join the US in endorsing a mandatory standard for global businesses to measure and report the risks they face from climate change

President-elect Joe Biden: his pledge to rejoin the Paris climate agreement sends an important signal to the world about US leadership. Picture: AP Photo/Susan Walsh

President-elect Joe Biden’s pledge to rejoin the Paris climate agreement sends an important signal to the world about US leadership. 

But the action will merely take us back to four years ago.