Biden Climate Czar: Abandoning Green Transition Is ‘Economic Malpractice’
“I think of the Inflation Reduction Act, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, as the booster packs on a rocket,” White House National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi says on this week’s episode of Zero. “But the rocket is the private sector.”
Ali Zaidi, White House national climate advisor, at COP29.
Photographer: Hollie Adams/BloombergWhen reporter Akshat Rathi sat down with White House National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi in 2022, the Biden administration was celebrating the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, a landmark piece of green legislation. “We’re running faster and faster,” Zaidi said.
Speaking once again to the Zero podcast just a week after the 2024 US election, Zaidi and Rathi discussed whether the momentum created by the IRA could be sustained in the second term of Donald Trump, who has vowed to undo many of Biden’s signature policies.