Impact of US election outcomes on global climate change efforts ‘overblown’, Olver says

Fears around what the outcome of the upcoming US Presidential elections will mean for the green energy transition and fight against climate change are somewhat overblown, Presidential Climate Commission executive director Crispian Olver has said. “We're all on tenterhooks for the outcome of the US elections. We don't know. It's basically neck and neck between [Kamala] Harris and [Donald] Trump. I think in the climate space, the outcome is maybe a little bit overblown. I'm not sure America's ever going to reverse the Inflation Reduction Act investments, but certainly the signals that get sent into the global community are going to be radically different,” he said at the fourth yearly Climate Summit, in Johannesburg, on October 1.