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Why has climate change taken a back seat in the US election?

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The US is the world’s second -biggest emitter of greenhouse gases after China .

Last year , it broke a record set in 2019 by producing an average of 12.9 million barrels of crude oil a day.

UN warns that the world is heading for more than 3C of warming as current policies to reduce emissions fall “miles short” of what is needed.

Polling suggests climate change has become less of a deciding factor for many voters during this election than it was in 2020 .

Gallup survey shows that a majority of voters favour Harris over Trump to handle climate change.

A quarter of Republican voters believe Harris would do it better than Trump .

Climate change is one of the issues Republican voters have the least faith in him to tackle.

Survey from think tank Data For Progress found that two-thirds of likely voters supported bill to make polluters pay.

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