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Will Biden’s Temporary Pause of Gas Export Projects Win Back Young Voters?

Inside Climate News · By Kristoffer Tigue, Keerti Gopal · last updated
A record number of young voters helped propel Biden into office. But growing criticism of the president, in part because of broken climate promises, could cause some voters to skip this year’s election.

By Kristoffer Tigue, Keerti Gopal

The White House has announced that it is temporarily pausing the federal approval process for all pending export terminals of liquified natural gas, or LNG, marking a significant win for environmentalists who had been fighting the projects for years.

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State of Play

Talks are well underway in preparation for the next major international meeting on climate change, 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28), scheduled to begin Nov. 30 in the United Arab Emirates. 

Much like last year’s COP27, finances — specifically, aid to developing nations — will be at the center of conference deliberations.

The conference faces an even greater sense of urgency brought on by the Sept. 8, 2023, release of the first global stocktake, which calls for accelerated action to meet the goals set in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement (COP21). 

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