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Costing the Earth: American election

American election

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What will the American election result mean for the environment? Tom Heap investigates.

What will the outcome of the American presidential election mean for the environment? Tom Heap and a panel of commentators anaylse the result.

After four years of the Trump administration, and a hard-fought and much-disputed presidential race, what are the implications now for future American environmental policy?   In this programme Tom Heap and a panel of commentators discuss what the election result may mean for everything from energy production to the Paris Agreement.

On the panel: Professor Jody Freeman, Harvard Law School; Bob Ward, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment; Karly Matthews, American Conservation Coaltion; Mark Lynas, environmental campaigner and author. 

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