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Businesses have asked Biden to commit to cutting U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in the next decade by at least 50 percent from 2005 levels. But plenty of companies are well on their way there anyways, with or without Washington. More in The Long Game:

AROUND THE WORLDThe willful systematic destruction of the environment — ecocide — could become an international high crime.

The EU Parliament this month could endorse a plan to make ecocide a crime prosecuted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, a venue reserved for the very worst crimes against humanity.Parliamentary initiatives to recognize ecocide as an international crime have popped up in Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain, the Netherlands and Sweden. French President Emmanuel Macron has said that heads of government who deliberately fail to protect the environment should be held accountable at the ICC.

 

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