{"id":118545,"date":"2021-04-22T21:28:41","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T04:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=118545"},"modified":"2021-04-22T21:28:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T04:28:41","slug":"president-biden-at-the-virtual-leaders-summit-on-climate-opening-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=118545","title":{"rendered":"President Biden at the Virtual Leaders Summit on Climate Opening Session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;.Thank you, Madam Vice President.\u00a0 Good morning to all of our colleagues around the world \u2014 the world leaders who are taking part in this summit.\u00a0 I thank you.\u00a0 You know, your leadership on this issue is a statement to the people of your nation and to the people of every nation, especially our young people, that we\u2019re ready to meet this moment.\u00a0 And meeting this moment is about more than preserving our planet; it\u2019s also about providing a better future for all of us.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nWQbZGL9kV0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why, when people talk about climate, I think jobs.\u00a0 Within our climate response lies an extraordinary engine of job creation and economic opportunity ready to be fired up.\u00a0 That\u2019s why I\u2019ve proposed a huge investment in American infrastructure and American innovation to tap the economic opportunity that climate change presents our workers and our communities, especially those too often that have \u2014 left out and left behind.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d like to buil- \u2014 I want to build a \u2014 a critical infrastructure to produce and deploy clean technology \u2014 both those we can harness today and those that we\u2019ll invent tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>I talked to the experts, and I see the potential for a more prosperous and equitable future.\u00a0 The signs are unmistakable.\u00a0 The science is undeniable.\u00a0 But the cost of inaction is \u2014 keeps mounting.<\/p>\n<p>The United States isn\u2019t waiting.\u00a0 We are resolving to take action \u2014 not only the \u2014 our federal government, but our cities and our states all across our country; small businesses, large businesses, large corporations; American workers in every field.<\/p>\n<p>I see an opportunity to create millions of good-paying, middle-class, union jobs.<\/p>\n<p>I see line workers laying thousands of miles of transmission lines for a clean, modern, resilient grid.<\/p>\n<p>I see workers capping hundreds of thousands of abandoned oil and gas wells that need to be cleaned up, and abandoned coalmines that need to be reclaimed, putting a stop to the methane leaks and protecting the health of our communities.<\/p>\n<p>I see autoworkers building the next generation of electric vehicles, and electricians installing nationwide for 500,000 charging stations along our highways.<\/p>\n<p>I see engine- \u2014 the engineers and the construction workers building new carbon capture and green hydrogen plants to forge cleaner steel and cement and produce clean power.<\/p>\n<p>I see farmers deploying cutting-edge tools to make soil of our \u2014 of our Heartland the next frontier in carbon innovation.<\/p>\n<p>By maintaining those investments and putting these people to work, the United States sets out on the road to cut greenhouse gases in half \u2014 in half by the end of this decade.\u00a0 That\u2019s where we\u2019re headed as a nation, and that\u2019s what we can do if we take action to build an economy that\u2019s not only more prosperous, but healthier, fairer, and cleaner for the entire planet.<\/p>\n<p>You know, these steps will set America on a path of net-zero emissions economy by no later than 2050.\u00a0 But the truth is, America represents less than 15 percent of the world\u2019s emissions.\u00a0 No nation can solve this crisis on our own, as I know you all fully understand.\u00a0 All of us, all of us \u2014 and particularly those of us who represent the world\u2019s largest economies \u2014 we have to step up.<\/p>\n<p>You know, those that do take action and make bold investments in their people and clean energy future will win the good jobs of tomorrow, and make their economies more resilient and more competitive.<\/p>\n<p>So let\u2019s run that race; win more \u2014 win more sustainable future than we have now; overcome the existential crisis of our times.\u00a0 We know just how critically important that is because scientists tell us that this is the decisive decade.\u00a0 This is the decade we must make decisions that will avoid the worst consequences of a climate crisis.\u00a0 We must try to keep the Earth\u2019s temperature and \u2014 to an increase of \u2014 to 1.5 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n<p>You know, the world beyond 1.5 degrees means more frequent and intense fires, floods, droughts, heat waves, and hurricanes tearing through communities, ripping away lives and livelihoods, increasingly dire impacts to our public health.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s undeniable and undevi- \u2014 you know, the idea of accelerating and the reality that will come if we don\u2019t move.\u00a0 We can\u2019t resign ourselves to that future.\u00a0 We have to take action, all of us.<\/p>\n<p>And this summit is our first step on the road we\u2019ll travel together \u2014 God willing, all of us \u2014 to and through Glasgow this November and the U.N. Climate Conference \u2014 the Climate Change Conf- \u2014 Conference, you know, to set our world on a path to a secure, prosperous, and sustainable future.\u00a0 The health of communities throughout the world depends on it.\u00a0 The wellbeing of our workers depends on it.\u00a0 The strength of our economies depends on it.<\/p>\n<p>The countries that take decisive action now to create the industries of the future will be the ones that reap the economic benefits of the clean energy boom that\u2019s coming.<\/p>\n<p>You know, we\u2019re here at this summit to discuss how each of us, each country, can set higher climate ambitions that will in turn create good-paying jobs, advance innovative technologies, and help vulnerable countries adapt to climate impacts.<\/p>\n<p>We have to move.\u00a0 We have to move quickly to meet these challenges.\u00a0 The steps our countries take between now and Glasgow will set the world up for success to protect livelihoods around the world and keep global warming at a maximum of 1.5 degrees Celsius.\u00a0 We must get on the path now in order to do that.<\/p>\n<p>If we do, we\u2019ll breathe easier, literally and figuratively; we\u2019ll create good jobs here at home for millions of Americans; and lay a strong foundation for growth for the future.\u00a0 And \u2014 and that \u2014 that can be your goal as well.\u00a0 This is a moral imperative, an economic imperative, a moment of peril but also a moment of extraordinary possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>Time is short, but I believe we can do this.\u00a0 And I believe that we will do this.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for being part of the summit.\u00a0 Thank you for the communities that you \u2014 and the commitments you have made, the communities you\u2019re from.\u00a0 God bless you all.<\/p>\n<p>And I look forward to progress that we can make together today and beyond.\u00a0 We really have no choice.\u00a0 We have to get this done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;.Thank you, Madam Vice President.\u00a0 Good morning to all of our colleagues around the world \u2014 the world leaders who are taking part in this summit.\u00a0 I thank you.\u00a0 You know, your leadership on this issue is a statement to the people of your nation and to the people of every nation, especially our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Fullscreen-capture-4222021-91526-PM.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}