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The Climate Crisis: Working Together for Future Generations

   Published Date: 31st March 2023
The Climate Crisis: Working Together for Future Generations

The Climate Crisis: Working Together for Future Generations

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The climate crisis is one of the most pressing issues of our time. It is a global problem that requires a collective effort to mitigate its effects and ensure a sustainable future for future generations. We all have a role to play in addressing this crisis, and working together is crucial to achieving meaningful progress.

One of the key ways to address the climate crisis is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This can be achieved through a range of actions, including transitioning to renewable energy sources, improving energy efficiency, and promoting sustainable transportation. Governments, businesses, and individuals all have a role to play in reducing emissions, and cooperation between these groups is essential to making significant progress.

Another important aspect of addressing the climate crisis is adaptation. Climate change is already having significant impacts on communities around the world, and it is essential that we work together to build resilience and prepare for the changes that are already underway. This includes developing infrastructure that can withstand extreme weather events, protecting vulnerable ecosystems, and ensuring that communities have access to the resources and support they need to adapt to changing conditions.

Ultimately, addressing the climate crisis requires a collective effort that goes beyond individual actions. Governments, businesses, and individuals must work together to create a sustainable future for future generations. This includes investing in research and development to advance clean technologies, supporting policies that promote sustainable practices, and fostering a culture of environmental awareness and responsibility.

By working together, we can make meaningful progress in addressing the climate crisis and ensure a sustainable future for generations to come.

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The Climate Crisis: Working Together for Future Generations

The Climate Crisis: Working Together for Future Generations:- Bold action to tackle the climate crisis is more urgent than ever. The record-breaking heat, floods, storms, drought, and wildfires devastating communities around the world underscore the grave risks we already face. Through our actions at home and our leadership abroad, the United States is doing its part to build a net zero-emission, resilient future that creates good jobs and ensures a healthy, livable planet for generations to come.

Climate is not a trading card, it’s our future.

ANTONY J. BLINKEN
SECRETARY OF STATE

No country can solve the climate crisis alone. Everyone must do their part. Shortly after taking office, President Biden called world leaders together and urged them to commit to take the steps needed to keep the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius within reach. Many countries are strengthening their ambition, but stronger and more urgent efforts are needed to reduce emissions and to help the most vulnerable countries cope with devastating climate impacts.

June 14, 2022, Brazil. The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27 soon appears on a flag. Event will be on 7-18 November 2022, in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt
SHARM EL-SHEIKH
IMPLEMENTING OUR COMMITMENTS

U.S. CLIMATE
LEADERSHIP
cleaning solar panels
THE ECONOMIC PROMISE
OF CLIMATE ACTION

WORLD LEADERS
MUST STEP UP
Sharm El-Sheikh: Implementing our commitments
SPEC John Kerry COP27

Together, our job is to create the sense of urgency that summons the political will to follow through on the pledges and commitments we have already made — knowing one thing above all: the world will not follow our advice; it will follow our example.

We know that the future is cleaner, greener, and healthier – if we can get there together, in time. This is the choice we must make in the lead up to COP27.

JOHN KERRY
SPECIAL PRESIDENTIAL ENVOY FOR CLIMATE

More than 190 countries will gather in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, in November 2022 for the 27th annual UN Climate Change Conference (COP27). Countries must work to quickly implement existing commitments and make the additional commitments needed to keep the 1.5 degrees C goal within reach, and advance cooperative efforts on emission reductions, adaptation, finance, technology, and averting, minimizing and addressing loss and damage. This year, the United States is urging all countries to come to Sharm El-Sheikh with climate targets that meet these goals, and efforts to implement adaptation and mitigation initiatives.

The United States heads into COP27 able to show progress on meeting our ambitious 1.5 C-aligned target, and we are fully committed to working with all countries to tackle the climate crisis. Mobilizing a whole-of-government approach, the United States is scaling up action at home and abroad to put the world on a path to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 and to achieve the global goal on adaptation. Learn more about the United States at COP27 and the U.S. Center.

Logo for the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27)
U.S. Climate Leadership
COP27 Spotlights

The United States is leading by the power of example. The Biden-Harris Administration is committed to mobilizing a whole-of-society approach that enlists states, cities, businesses, civil society groups, and others to create a resilient and net-zero economy that benefits all.

The U.S. nationally determined contribution sets a target of reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels in 2030. With commitments announced by other leaders at the Leaders Summit on Climate, and additional pledges made over this last year, countries representing 65 percent of global GDP have announced commitments and targets to reduce their emissions to levels in line with keeping a 1.5-degree Celsius limit to warming within reach. President Biden also pledged to work with Congress to quadruple U.S. support for developing countries – and sextuple finance for adaptation efforts – by 2024.

Wind turbines line the horizon November 24, 2021, along Interstate 5 in Livermore, California. (© Christine Birch Ferrelli)
What’s in the Biggest U.S. Climate Legislation Ever Passed?

President Biden and Congress made historic progress to meet the moment on climate by enacting the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), marking the most aggressive and enduring action ever by the U.S. government in combating the climate crisis while improving energy security. This legislation sets the United States on track to achieve President Biden’s bold goals of reaching net-zero emissions no later than 2050, and getting halfway there within this decade.

President Biden speaks at the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate from the East Room of the White House on April 22. 
United States Progress Toward Climate Goals

In June, the United States and our G7+ allies committed to end direct government support for unabated international thermal coal power generation by the end of 2021 and to provide up to $2 billion to support developing countries in their transition from coal. G7 leaders also outlined strategies to decarbonize industry and pledged to reverse the loss of global biodiversity and conserve at least 30 percent of global land and marine areas by 2030.

The Economic Promise of Climate Action

Reaching global net-zero represents the greatest economic opportunity of our time. Today, solar and wind power are the cheapest sources of power generation in countries accounting for 77 percent of global GDP. The global renewable energy market is projected to be worth $2.15 trillion by 2025. U.S. manufacturers can lead this global market in renewable technologies. Conserving forests, restoring ecosystems, and deploying climate-smart agricultural practices can enhance productivity while creating access to new sources of revenue. Small businesses can grow by designing, installing, and innovating energy-conserving technologies and infrastructure.

Smart investments in infrastructure, innovation and U.S. workers can build a zero-carbon economy that gives everybody a fair shot at the American Dream.

“Nations that work together to invest in a cleaner economy will reap rewards for their citizens.” President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
World Leaders Must Step Up

The United States accounts for less than 15 percent of global emissions. All countries – especially the world’s major economies – must contribute their fair share to the global climate effort. Failing to keep the goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius alive will produce more extreme events such as heat waves, floods, storms, wildfires, and droughts; significantly exacerbate global food insecurity; drive global migration; and act as a crisis multiplier that will pose grave national security threats. If the international community fails to address climate change today, the costs of our inaction will be passed down to future generations.

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