Abstract
Global climate change is one of the greatest crises that our world has ever faced. Without a global action plan, the effect of this crisis is prone to cause far greater tragedies soon. Despite the warnings from scientists, states lack to embrace responsibilities against climate change due to different policy-wise gains and aggravate the situation. Meanwhile, the struggle against climate change has become highly politicized in the US and Washington continues to lack a rigid policy agenda. Different presidential administrations attained different conceptions of the crisis and abstained to identify the issue as a global and existential threat. While the Bush Administration, which took the office in 2001, ignored the climate change crisis, his successor Barack H. Obama introduced a new policy trend. Eventually, during the Obama administration, the US has witnessed its most successful era in terms of its struggle against climate change. However, after taking over the office in 2016, the Trump administration redundant reversed the commitments pledged by the US against the climate crisis and readopted an ambiguous policy agenda. On the other hand, although Mr. Biden became the 46th president of the US less than a year ago, his administration has put a great effort to compensate for the damage given during the Trump era and re-incorporated Washington into the struggle given against climate change. This study aims to present the policy trends of the US presidents who took over the office between 2001 and 2020. Finally, the study concludes with an assessment of why the US is essential for the struggle against climate change, although it is one of the countries which expedites the damages of the crisis.