Climate change is a crisis of global magnitude, threatening nations regardless of size, location, and power.
Every day, the impacts of climate change are becoming more severe and evident in our daily lives.
Delay and inaction are driving more frequent and intense flooding, droughts, wildfires, and extreme weather events, destroying lives here at home and around the world. Recent investments in American clean energy leadership have laid the foundation for meaningful climate action while also creating millions of jobs in communities across the country. By sustaining this foundation along with support for global energy transition and resilience efforts, the U.S. can reduce climate risk and unlock economic opportunity. We ask Congress to defend investments in U.S. clean energy competitiveness and strengthen national and global resilience to mounting climate and energy security challenges.
new clean energy jobs were created in 2023 alone, thanks to historic public and private investment enabled by the Inflation Reduction Act.
The latest science is clear about what the U.S. must do, not only to avert catastrophe, but to realize the $3 trillion opportunity in leading the transition to a clean energy and climate-secure future. To avoid the unmanageable and manage the unavoidable, we must accelerate the energy transition at home and abroad and increase the resilience of our infrastructure and communities. With the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, President Biden and Congress set the stage for a decisive decade of U.S. climate and clean energy leadership, but further action is needed.
You can contribute to these efforts by encouraging your elected representatives in Congress – and leaders at all levels of government – to support policies that will spur clean energy development and deployment and enable us to decarbonize further and faster across the power, transportation, industrial, buildings, and agricultural sectors. But this must be matched by increased support for sustainable development overseas. As a world-leading economy and geopolitical power, we must meet our commitment to deliver $11.4 billion in annual climate finance for developing countries and do more to marshal public and private resources to accelerate the energy transition and support climate adaptation globally.