Friends -
This time tomorrow, the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference will be underway in Glasgow, Scotland — and eyes all around the world will be on our movement for climate justice.
Ahead of the conference, President Biden has announced a new framework for the Build Back Better deal — one that would invest a historic $555 billion in climate action and clean energy projects.
An agreement for this framework is close, but there’s still a great deal of work to be done in Congress to hammer out the details and put our nation and our planet on the right track toward combating the existential threat of climate change. That’s why I’m asking you today:
Will you add your name to my petition demanding large-scale and immediate action to combat the climate crisis? The time for bold climate action is now, and we don’t have a moment to waste. [[link removed]]
As you may remember, an August report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change called the state of the climate crisis “code red for humanity.”
The fact is that the United States, with our outsized historic responsibility for the climate crisis, has an outsized responsibility to solve it.
If we’re going to re-establish the United States as a world leader in the fight against climate catastrophe — and bring other countries along in that fight — our progressive movement must lead the charge right here at home.
The Build Back Better framework MUST make the investments we need to deliver on our international commitment to cut climate pollution by at least 50% from 2005 levels by 2030. It must create good-paying, union jobs in a clean economy that works for all communities. And it must center environmental, economic, and racial justice.
That is our climate test.
As it stands, the general framework of this Build Back Better deal will take important steps to help us cut harmful emissions, create jobs, and promote justice.
It will create a robust Civilian Climate Corps, training the next generation of workers for careers rebuilding our energy economy and create new, good-paying jobs all across the country combating this global crisis.
It creates a national climate bank to speed up the development of clean energy projects across the nation, and makes investments nationwide in renewable energy infrastructure.
Will this deal do everything we need to combat the climate crisis and stop global temperature rise? No. There will always be more work to do to address the existential crisis of our time.
But as the President heads to Glasgow, as deadlines set by the top scientific experts around the world rapidly pass us by, as sea levels rise, natural disasters strike every region of the United States with frightening regularity, temperatures reach record heights, and our environment is thrown into chaos, one thing is abundantly clear: we must act now.
The fact is that the only way our movement will be able to do that is together. So I’m asking you directly:
Will you add your name to my petition demanding large-scale and immediate action to combat the climate crisis? The time for bold climate action is now, and we don’t have a moment to waste. [[link removed]]
As I’ve said, we have a great deal of work to do. And our opponents in the fossil fuel industry and in the Republican Party have virtually limitless resources to put to work destroying our planet, and they’re not afraid to use them.
The good news is that our movement is growing stronger by the day, and I’m confident that together we will make our agenda for climate justice a reality.
As always, thank you for all you do. It’s the honor of my life to stand beside you in this fight.
In solidarity,
Ed Markey
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