IPCC Report an Urgent Call to Global Action on Clean Energy Investment and Climate Assistance
"The message to President Biden is clear. He must use his authority under existing law to put in place robust new standards to cut the carbon pollution from our cars, trucks and dirty power plants and he must do so now."
WASHINGTON – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations body that assesses the global climate crisis, released its overarching report on Monday, synthesizing findings about the science, impacts and efforts to confront this widening scourge.
Manish Bapna, president and CEO at NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council), made the following statement:
“This is the stone cold truth laid out in unassailable science by the world’s top climate experts. We’re hurtling down the road to ruin and running out of time to change course. We’re leaving the most vulnerable among us to pay a price they can’t afford for a crisis they didn’t cause. We’re condemning our children to a world of cascading disasters.
“The report lays out a better way. This generation must invest in clean energy to drive decades of innovation, jobs and growth. Wealthy nations must mobilize the resources to pay down the climate debt that’s owed to low-income countries on the frontlines of climate hazard and harm. Every nation must dramatically accelerate the shift away from fossil fuels.
“The message to President Biden is clear. He must use his authority under existing law to put in place robust new standards to cut the carbon pollution from our cars, trucks and dirty power plants—which together account for half of all U.S. greenhouse gases—and he must do so now.”
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