New U.S. President Joe Biden has pledged to switch the entire fleet of federal vehicles to U.S.-made electric cars as part of his “Buy American” programme.
World-wide food and beverage company Pepsico of the United States has announced plans to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 % by 2030 and to bring them down to zero by 2040 – a full decade earlier than the deadline set down in the Paris agreement on climate change.