TE24 International Desk:
With lawmakers and the Supreme Court intervening, President Joe Biden on Wednesday sought to revive his ambitions to tackle climate change as heatwaves ravaged the United States and Europe.
Rising summer temperatures highlight the heightened threat and now 100 million people in the United States are suffering from excessive heat warnings and heatwaves, causing dire conditions across Europe.
“Climate change … is not literally metaphorical, but a clear and present threat,” Biden said, adding $2.3 billion to help build U.S. infrastructure to combat climate disasters. Announcement of enforcement actions involving investments in the United States.
“The health of our citizens and our communities is literally at stake … our national security is at stake … and our economy is at stake. So we have to act. This is an emergency and I take it that way. The President, I will use my executive powers to address the climate crisis.”
However, he stopped short of declaring a formal climate emergency that would have given him additional political power. Asked about the emergency appointment after returning home, Biden told reporters, “I will make a decision soon.” Biden signed a presidential order to return the United States to the Paris Agreement, followed by an ambition to reduce US net greenhouse gas pollution by 50-52% from 2005 levels by 2030. announcement
However, his signature Buildback Better Act, which would include $550 billion in clean energy and other climate initiatives, is a necessary boost in Congress when it says it supports a bill that Democrat Joe Manchin does not support. I almost died because I couldn’t get it. In an evenly divided Senate. And last month, the conservative Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cannot enact sweeping greenhouse gas regulations without parliamentary approval.
“When it comes to fighting climate change, I don’t take ‘no’ for an answer,” said Biden and Florida’s Gulf Coast.
The Biden administration viewed climate policy as a job-creating project and as a national security issue, made more imminent by rising fuel prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In a statement, the White House said Biden is “trying to turn the climate crisis into an opportunity by creating high-paying clean energy jobs and reducing household costs.”
He gave a speech on Wednesday at a defunct coal-fired power plant that was used to supply offshore wind farms with a cable plant.
Foreign Office spokesman Edward Price pointed to extreme heatwaves in Europe this week. UK
Recorded temperatures of 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius). This is further evidence that climate change cannot wait for action.
“We are determined to capture this moment and do everything we can, including on the world stage, so that this important decade does not pass without appropriate action.”
