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Remarks: Joe Biden Addresses the Fifth Session of the Virtual Climate Summit - April 23, 2021
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Joe Biden
00:00:09-00:00:36 (26 sec)Medium (1.647)
We've made great progress, in my view, so far. And I'm grateful to all the leaders who have announced new commitments to help us meet the existential threat of climate change. This summit is a start -- a start of a road that will take us to Glasgow for the U.N. Climate Change Conference in November where we're going to make these commitments real, putting all of our nations on path to a secure, prosperous, and sustainable future.
Joe Biden
00:00:36-00:01:00 (24 sec)No Signal (0.246)
Today's final session is not about the threat of climate change poses; it's about the opportunity that addressing climate change provides. It's an opportunity to create millions of good-paying jobs around the world and innovate -- in innovative sectors -- you know, jobs that bring greater quality of life, greater dignity to the people performing those jobs in every nation.
Joe Biden
00:01:00-00:01:19 (19 sec)No Signal (0.82)
For a line-worker, electricians, utility workers -- laying transmission lines, connecting battery storage, and making our electric grid more modern. For automotive workers -- building electric cars, trucks, and buses. Skilled workers installing and charge -- charging stations to accommodate them throughout our countries.
Joe Biden
00:01:19-00:01:37 (18 sec)Weak (1.355)
Construction workers, engineers, insulators -- upgrading our schools and commercial buildings, and constructing new energy-efficient homes. Manufacturing -- manufacturing workers building nuclear and carbon capture technologies, solar panels, and wind turbines.
Joe Biden
00:01:48-00:02:11 (23 sec)No Signal (0.32)
This is -- this challenge and these opportunities are going to be met by working people in every nation. And as we transition to a clean energy future, we must ensure that workers who have thrived in yesterday's and today's industries have as bright a tomorrow in the new industries as well as in the places where they live, in the communities they have built.
Joe Biden
00:02:11-00:02:30 (18 sec)No Signal (0.434)
When we invest in climate resilience and infrastructure, we create opportunities for everyone. That's -- that's at the heart of my Jobs Plan that I proposed here in United States. It's how our nation intends to build an economy that gives everybody a fair shot.
Joe Biden
00:02:30-00:02:45 (15 sec)No Signal (0.609)
As you heard in the last session, it requires investing in innovation. That's why I've asked the Secretary of Energy -- my Energy Secretary, Jennifer Granholm, who you saw earlier -- to speed the development of critical technologies to tackle the climate crisis.
Joe Biden
00:02:45-00:03:09 (23 sec)No Signal (0.231)
No single technology is the answer on its own because every sector requires innovation to meet this moment. You know, this critical effort is going to propel the most impactful breakthroughs at home and around the world and lower the cost of -- we're paying now for polluting the air so badly. We're going to move to net zero in a transition in all countries.
Joe Biden
00:03:19-00:03:37 (18 sec)No Signal (0.655)
I am also very proud to announce the United States is again becoming a key leader in Mission Innovation -- we helped launch the program during the Obama-Biden administration -- a pact between the world's largest economies to ramp up investments in clean energy research and development.
Joe Biden
00:03:37-00:04:24 (47 sec)No StressLens
And today, America is once again stepping into the leadership role. We will be joining and a partner -- for the nations and efforts to decarbonize critical sectors across the board, including industrial sector, where we'll join with Sweden and India, and leadership -- in the Leadership Group for -- for Industry Transition; the power sector, where we'll work alongside of the United Kingdom to spread progress and speed it up toward a carbon-free power system both here and around the world; and in agriculture -- the agricultural sector, where we'll launch the Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate with the United -- with the United Ara- -- United Arab Emirates and other partners.
Joe Biden
00:04:24-00:04:38 (14 sec)No Signal (0.104)
We also -- I'm very heartened by President Putin's call yesterday for the world to collaborate and advanced carbon dioxide removal. And the United States looks forward to working with Russia and other countries in that endeavor. It has a great promise.
Joe Biden
00:04:51-00:05:07 (16 sec)No Signal (0.721)
Nations that work together to invest in a cleaner economy will reap rewards for their citizens. The United States is committed -- we are committed to making those investments to grow our economy here at home while connecting with markets around the world.