Two compilation videos booked New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham talking about the importance of expanding renewable energy in front of a solar panel sector.
Biden’s adoption of one of the first climate bills in the 1980s has been cited twice.
Millions of good-paying jobs voiced promises about images of public land, sustainable farms, and alternative transport like electric scooters.
Biden’s strategy aims to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and puts 40 percent of expenditures on the most disadvantaged communities.
But the climate credentials of the convention were marred by the surprising decision by the DNC to remove language in opposition to fossil fuel subsidies, despite Biden’s support for eliminating them.
The step was opposed also by the young climate activist Greta Thunberg.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg in a tweet shared a Huffpost article that cited that the DNC dropped some provision from its official climate platform: “Democrats support eliminating tax breaks and subsidies for fossil fuels, and will fight to defend and extend tax incentives for energy efficiency and clean energy.”
”The Democratic National Committee this week quietly dropped language calling for an end to fossil fuel subsidies and tax breaks from its party platform”
So, not even the very very minimum…https://t.co/2h7A1bDmj9
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) August 19, 2020
Trump’s video cut called global warming a “hoax.”
A whistleblower scientist who left the interior department in 2017 went “all-out” to reverse climate efforts and handed over the keys to public lands to private interests.
Young climate activists spoke about losing their homes to wildfires, asking whether they should raise families and feel betrayed because people of color are more likely to be exposed to pollution.
The climate crisis is getting the greatest attention by a US political party that it has ever had.
While Biden is probably the stronger solution to the crisis than Trump and he has won plenty of support for his ideas from environmental advocates, critics argue he is still not tough enough with the fossil fuel industry.
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