When President Biden was sworn into office one year ago , he promised to lead an unprecedented, whole-government approach to fighting climate change and advancing the clean energy economy. While the country is still waiting for Congress and the White House to push the transformative investments of the Build Back Better Act across the finish line, we have nonetheless come a long way over this past year. President Biden has made significant progress on his commitments to use every avenue he can to create jobs, cut pollution, promote environmental justice and lower energy costs for American families. In his first year in office, Biden has: • Re-established the U.S. as a global leader on climate change. In a direct rebuke of the previous Administration, President Biden used his very first day in office to announce that the U.S. would rejoin the Paris Agreement, an international pact signed by more than 190 countries to commit to action to avert catastrophic climate change. He followed that with a pledge to cut U.S. climate pollution by 50%-52% by 2030, putting the U.S. in the top tier of global climate ambition. And he didn’t stop there. President Biden has made good on his promise to re-establish American leadership on climate change by hosting an international leaders summit last spring, declaring that the U.S. will work with China to tackle climate challenges (including methane pollution), joining more than 100 countries in committing to end deforestation this decade and backing the LEAF Coalition — a public-private effort to mobilize funding for large-scale forest protection. https://www.edf.org/blog/2022/01/20/bidens-first-year-robust-record-climate-action By Elizabeth Gore Elizabeth is EDF's Senior Vice President of Political Affairs.