But we must also speak truth about the
road ahead. We are living through a worsening climate crisis that is
impacting communities across America and the globe every day.
From families devastated by hurricanes
in the South and the East, to farmers facing flooding in the Midwest,
to firefighters battling wildfires in the West, one thing is clear: we
need to take bold, direct action. Now.
The science has established that
limiting global temperature increases below 1.5 degrees Celsius can
avoid some of the most severe impacts of climate change. Meeting that
goal will require the world to reduce greenhouse gas emissions roughly
50 percent by 2030 and reach net-zero global emissions by 2050. And
because the United States is the largest single greenhouse gas emitter
in history, we have an obligation to lead this fight.
But, while we know that the climate
threat is great, so is our opportunity. An opportunity to clean our air
and water, which will improve the health of Americans and reduce health
care costs. An opportunity to create millions of new clean jobs while
building an economy that works for working people. An opportunity to
rebuild our global standing while increasing our national security.
My plan — a Climate Plan For the
People — is about putting people first, justice for communities that
have been harmed and accountability for those responsible. It provides
the pathway to engage all Americans to tackle the climate crisis, build a
clean economy that creates millions of family-sustaining jobs, and
guarantee every person’s right to breathe clean air and drink clean
water.
My plan sets out a bold target to
exceed the Paris Agreement climate goals and achieve a clean economy by
2045, investing $10 trillion in public and private funding to meet the
initial 10-year mobilization necessary to stave off the worst climate
impacts. It modernizes our transportation, energy, and water
infrastructure. It accelerates the spread of electric vehicles, solar
panels, and wind turbines. And it makes big investments in battery
storage, climate-smart agriculture, advanced manufacturing, and the
innovative technologies that will build our carbon-free future.
By 2030, we will run on 100 percent
carbon-neutral electricity, all new buses, heavy-duty vehicles, and
vehicle fleets will be zero-emission. All new buildings will be
carbon-neutral. We will protect 30 percent of our lands and oceans. We
will transition our public lands from producing the fossil fuels that
represent 24 percent of national emissions to carbon sinks. And to power
this transformation to a clean economy, we will empower the American
workforce and create millions of good jobs.
My plan lifts up the communities
across our country that have been ignored for too long. From the Rust
Belt to the Gulf Coast, from Appalachia to the Central Valley, our clean
economy must be one where everyone has the opportunity to be part of
the solution.
Because we can only succeed in this
work when the communities most affected by environmental harm are
leading to create healthy, vibrant communities, not the polluters who
are fighting to preserve the status quo. When Indigenous Americans are
leading to preserve our natural resources, not the oil companies seeking
to destroy them. When America’s farmers and ranchers are leading to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions through sustainable practices, not the
global agribusinesses seeking only profits. When our elected
representatives are leading to hold big oil, agricultural, and chemical
companies to account, not giving them billions in corporate handouts.
And when scientists are leading to inform Americans using science facts,
not the pundits peddling science fiction.
Yes, it won’t be easy. It will be a
fight against powerful interests. But I know we can get this done
because this is a fight I have taken on before and won. I’ve spent my
career working with communities to hold polluters accountable and build a
clean economy. It’s why I created the first-ever environmental justice
unit in San Francisco as District Attorney and why, as California’s
Attorney General, I successfully fought to protect the nation’s toughest
climate laws while prosecuting the big polluters that continue to
pollute our air and water.
Together we will build a Climate Plan
For the People that prevents the worst climate impacts while creating
thriving communities for ourselves, our families, and future
generations.
Here’s our five-pillar plan:
A Foundation for Justice
Successfully combating the climate
crisis will require that all Americans benefit from the economic and
environmental transformation that comes from replacing dirty fossil
fuels with clean renewable energy. There is simply no way to transition
fast enough unless we create the economic and leadership opportunities
for all Americans to benefit and participate.
That’s why as we boldly address the
climate crisis, we must make empowering impacted communities the
foundation of our mission.
Holding Polluters Accountable
For decades, Big Oil has known the
climate and public health impacts of burning fossil fuels. That’s why it
sought to protect its assets from future sea level rise while pushing
fake science to sow doubt and aggressively fund campaigns to block
climate action, push anti-science policies, and bankroll climate-denying
politicians. As Attorney General of California, Kamala held polluters
accountable and, as President, she will ensure that those responsible
for polluting our environment and spreading toxins in our air and water
pay for the harm they have caused to public and environmental health.
Building a Clean Economy That Works For the People
Addressing the climate crisis isn’t
just a fight against something; it’s a fight for something. While the
climate threat is great, we don’t have to choose between a clean
environment and a thriving economy that works for everyone. The work of
building a clean economy will create millions of family-sustaining jobs
and lift up all communities, leaving no one behind. From investing in
clean energy and electrifying transportation, to climate-smart
agriculture and resilient infrastructure, achieving a clean economy by
2045 will require all hands on deck.
Protecting Our Natural Resources
Our public lands and waters belong to
all Americans and are a critical tool for combating climate change. We
must stop extracting fossil fuels and use our public lands to our
collective benefit. We know that healthy forests store carbon and
provide clean air and water, protected corridors provide habitat for
species critical to thriving ecosystems, natural infrastructure makes
communities healthier and more resilient, and access to nature can fuel
the mind while fostering the next generation of environmental stewards.
Asserting International Leadership
The United States is the single
largest carbon polluter in history and we have benefited the most from
the growth that came with burning fossil fuels. We must speak this truth
and accept the responsibility we have to lead the global fight for a
healthier environment and sustainable future through clean energy
solutions. Climate action is a moral imperative and an enormous economic
opportunity. Future generations will judge us on whether or not we lead
this global fight.
PILLAR 1
A FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE
Successfully combating the climate
crisis will require that all Americans benefit from the economic and
environmental transformation that comes from replacing dirty fossil
fuels with clean renewable energy. There is simply no way to transition
fast enough unless we create the economic and leadership opportunities
for all Americans to benefit and participate.
As we implement policies to rapidly
reduce emissions, we must recognize that communities across our country
have been fighting for the right to live in a clean environment for
generations. Everyone needs clean air to breathe and clean water to
drink, but for too many Americans clean, healthy air and water have
become unattainable luxuries. Across our nation—from Flint, Michigan to
Lowndes County, Alabama and Denmark, South Carolina—there are too many
families that have been and continue to be harmed as a result of
environmental racism and injustice.
Systemic environmental, social, and
economic injustice has disproportionately impacted indigenous peoples,
communities of color, and low-income communities. We know that climate
change is already exacerbating environmental challenges, increasing
inequality, and putting these communities on the frontlines of yet
another crisis. They, along with deindustrialized communities and
depopulated rural communities—and the women, youth, and future
generations belonging to these communities—will face the most direct and
dire consequences of climate change. Their fight is our fight.
As San Francisco’s District Attorney,
Kamala started the city’s first environmental protection unit to protect
residents’ health and hold polluters accountable. As Attorney General
of California, she intervened to protect local communities from the
expansion of an oil refinery, and from increased pollution from diesel
trucks in a community already disproportionately impacted by vehicle
emissions. Kamala has fought for justice her entire career and she will
continue to do so as President.
That’s why empowering all communities is the foundation of Kamala’s climate and environmental leadership.
HERE’S HOW SHE’LL DO IT
She will hold the government accountable for climate and environmental justice by passing the Climate Equity Act, legislation recently announced by Kamala and Representative Ocasio Cortez.
- Every
community should have the opportunity to take part in and benefit as we
build a clean economy. From rural communities that are often left out of
federal policy to communities of color that are continually passed over
in decision making, if we do not empower every family to take part in
the climate fight, we will repeat the mistakes of past policies yet
again. That’s why Kamala will hold the government accountable to put
people first as we reduce greenhouse gas emissions, clean our air and
water, and create millions of jobs.
- To hold
Congress accountable, the Climate Equity Act requires that environmental
and climate-related legislation receive an equity score that
transparently maps and estimates its impact on frontline communities.
The score includes both quantitative and qualitative evaluations modeled
after economic scores provided by the Congressional Budget Office. To
ensure that the score appropriately addresses equity impacts, it will be
developed in consultation with experts and leaders from impacted
communities and will be periodically updated.
- To hold the
Executive Branch accountable, the Climate Equity Act requires that
environmental and climate-related rules and regulations that have
significant impacts on frontline communities undergo an additional level
of review to mitigate negative impacts, maximize benefits, and bring
representatives from those communities into the regulatory review
process. It also requires that environmental and climate-related federal
grant-making and investment programs undergo review to ensure that
impacted communities benefit from federal programs and policies.
- To give
frontline communities a seat at the table, an independent Office of
Climate and Environmental Justice Accountability will be established to
represent the views of frontline communities, conduct research on issues
and trends in frontline communities, measure the costs and benefits of
federal actions on frontline communities, and monitor government
compliance. During the review of rules and regulations, it ensures that
representatives of frontline communities have a voice, providing
insights and comments on how to minimize negative impacts and maximize
benefits.
- While Kamala
works with Congress to pass her Climate Equity Act, she will use her
Executive authority to implement the principles it sets forth, providing
frontline communities a seat at the table in decision-making. She will
also work to reinstitute and expand Executive Order 12898 and work with Congress to pass Senator Booker’s Environmental Justice Act.
She will strengthen the environmental safety net and reverse the Trump administration’s rollback of environmental protections.
- The current administration has rolled back, or is in the process of rolling back, over 80 environmental rules.
These rules protected Americans from air pollution and toxic chemicals
and laid a foundation for holding the fossil fuel industry accountable.
Kamala will use her authority to restore critical environmental and
public health protections and reverse the damage done by this
Administration. She will also reinstitute the Social Cost of Carbon
Taskforce, ensuring that we understand and appropriately account for the
social and economic cost of emissions in all federal actions.
- The National
Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) established that the public has a
right to engage with the federal government in a transparent and
equitable environmental decision-making process. The current
Administration has sought to undermine the protections provided by NEPA
in the name of cutting red tape. We must not fall into this trap. Kamala
will fully fund our agencies, ensuring that we have knowledgeable,
professional federal employees on staff to conduct unbiased scientific
assessments and NEPA reviews in a timely and efficient manner. We must
also work to close loopholes for polluters, including the Halliburton
Loophole, which exempts the fossil fuel industry from disclosing the
dangerous chemicals used in fracking under the Safe Drinking Water Act.
- Access to
the courts is fundamental for Americans to hold polluters accountable.
By statutorily reinforcing standing for those harmed by pollution and
strengthening counsel-access provisions, we can protect access to the
courts for citizens seeking restitution for environmental and
climate-related damages.
She will defend clean air and water as fundamental rights for all Americans.
- Communities across the nation have experienced the detrimental impacts of our aging and failing water infrastructure. At least 40 states are anticipating water shortages by 2024,
while as many as 15 percent of households are facing water
affordability challenges. Far too many families live with contaminated
water every day. From lead in Flint and Newark to PFAS in New Hampshire
and nitrates in the heartland, with an estimated cost of $1 trillion
over the next 20 years, we must immediately address our water safety,
affordability, and sustainability crisis.
- Kamala’s Water Justice Act
declares a Drinking Water Infrastructure Emergency and invests $250
billion over the next five years to repair and replace drinking water
infrastructure, provides aid to rural families to upgrade and maintain
their well water and septic systems, creates a new low-income assistance
program to help households pay for high drinking water and wastewater
utility bills, and addresses sustainable water supply in a changing
climate. And as we fix our infrastructure, we will create millions of
jobs and spur local economic growth.
- As we
continue the progress of cleaning our air, we must acknowledge that air
pollution is not experienced equally. Low-income communities and
communities of color shoulder a greater burden of toxic air and the
resulting health impacts than White and wealthy communities. A recent study
in California found that Black, Latino, and Asian families were exposed
to 21 to 43 percent more air pollution than White families. This
contributes to the fact that Black children are four times more likely
to be admitted to the hospital for asthma than their White counterparts.
As a country, we spend more than $80 billion each year in
asthma-related costs, with much of that burden on low-income communities
and communities of color.
- We must
explicitly address the inequities created by air pollution and implement
policies to decrease emissions by prioritizing meeting national air
quality standards and cleaning the air in overburdened communities
across the nation. By supporting and expanding models like California’s Community Air Protection Program,
we can reduce exposure and improve health outcomes in communities that
have suffered from dangerous air pollution for far too long.
She will stand up for Indigenous
rights and ensure that Native Americans are given a voice in the fight
to rectify systemic environmental injustices forced upon Indigenous
communities.
- If we are to
truly rectify environmental injustice, we must address the systemic
exploitation of Indigenous communities by our federal government. This
starts with speaking truth: many of the challenges facing Native
Americans stem from policies that disrespected tribal sovereignty,
flouted the government-to-government relationship, and disregarded
treaty commitments. That is why Kamala’s Climate Equity Act ensures that
Indigenous people are given a seat at the table, and that Indigenous
communities give free, prior, and informed consent before projects go
forward that may affect them or their territory. This starts by
respecting calls to halt pipelines across native land and ensuring
consent-based siting that includes consent by Indigenous communities for
any nuclear waste storage project, including Yucca Mountain.
- The recent report on Climate Change
and Land by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change repeatedly
addresses the need to bring Indigenous peoples into decision-making
processes and to utilize indigenous and local knowledge to our
collective benefit. Kamala will work with Indigenous communities to
fight the climate crisis, learning from their traditional ecological
knowledge, history, and experiences.
PILLAR 2
HOLDING POLLUTERS ACCOUNTABLE
Throughout her career, Kamala has
held polluters accountable. She went after oil companies that weren’t
following safety rules for underground storage tanks, and held
corporations accountable for unlawfully disposing of hazardous waste.
She criminally prosecuted the pipeline company that was responsible for
the 2015 Santa Barbara Oil Spill, criminally prosecuted a Chevron
refinery for violations that contributed to a toxic fire at the
refinery, and ensured justice after the 2011 Cosco Busan Oil Spill that
impacted more than 100 miles of California coastline.
Big Oil has known the detrimental
impacts of burning fossil fuels for over 40 years. Since then, they have
endeavored relentlessly to stop government action on climate change.
Their decades-long campaign of denial, delay, and deception includes
spending millions to push industry-funded studies meant to obfuscate the
scientific consensus on climate change, and to halt policy progress to
the detriment of human life. The fossil fuel industry must be held to
account for knowingly damaging our environment and endangering public
health.
Just as we will not let the fossil
fuel industry off the hook, chemical companies and other polluting
industries that have also pumped toxins into our air and water must be
held responsible. Far too many communities across our country suffer
from health impacts from contaminants like polychlorinated biphenyls
(PCBs) and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in their water,
and asbestos and ethylene oxide in their air. Everyone has the right to
clean air and clean water and our government has a responsibility to
uphold these rights.
That’s why Kamala’s Administration
will hold accountable those responsible for environmental degradation,
the misinformation campaign against climate science, and creating harm
to the health and wellbeing of current and future generations.
HERE’S HOW SHE’LL DO IT
She will end federal subsidies for fossil fuels and hold Big Oil accountable for its role in the climate crisis.
- A recent study
by the International Monetary Fund found that total direct and indirect
U.S. subsidies to the fossil fuel industry were $649 billion annually,
equivalent to roughly $2000 per American every year. While some of these
are indirect subsidies borne by the public—in the form of local air
pollution, public health impacts, and damages from climate change—direct
subsidies to the fossil fuel industry amount to billions of dollars, primarily
due to support for oil and gas production. Kamala will leverage both
executive authority and Congress to end federal support for the fossil
fuel industry, including by protecting our public lands, eliminating tax
preferences, and opposing new fossil fuel infrastructure projects.
- As Kamala
holds polluters accountable, she will ensure that the hardworking
employees of these companies become the builders of the clean economy of
the future. That’s why the families of fossil fuel workers are included
in her Climate Equity Act, which will ensure that these workers help
form the policies that will create millions of new jobs. These workers
deserve to continue to have good paying union jobs as part of the new
clean economy and Kamala is committed to valuing their work and ensuring
a just transition.
She will support the federal
enforcement of environmental and public health standards and put the
onus on corporations to disclose risks and demonstrate their products do
not cause harm.
- To hold
polluters accountable, the federal government needs the resources to
investigate and prosecute bad actors. Kamala knows that effective
enforcement requires the EPA to work in collaboration with states to
hold polluters accountable. That’s why she will robustly fund the EPA’s
Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance and ensure it has the
staff required to enforce our existing environmental and public health
protections while also providing assistance to states working to hold
polluters accountable. And, under Kamala’s Administration, the
Environmental and Natural Resources Division at the U.S. Department of
Justice will have the directive and resources to address both cumulative
and legacy pollution.
- Kamala will
prioritize public health and force polluters to pay for the harm they
cause by increasing penalties for companies found out of compliance with
federal laws. Additionally, she will restore the “polluter pays” model
for funding the Superfund program. By building on the recent reforms to
the Toxic Substances Control Act, Kamala will shift the burden of proof
to manufacturers to demonstrate the safety of all potentially toxic
substances, including chemicals found in pesticides and cosmetics that
endanger vulnerable persons and communities every day.
- The impacts
of climate change extend to every American business whether that
business is actively causing to the climate crisis or helping to solve
it. For the largest U.S. companies—those that have outsized influence on
our lives and economy—failing to assess and disclose the risks that the
climate crisis poses to their business is a direct threat to their
future success and our national economy. Kamala will ensure that
corporations appropriately assess and disclose risks from climate
change. This includes incorporating strategies like Senator Warren’s
Climate Risk Disclosure Act, which directs the Securities and Exchange
Commission to issue rules requiring that public companies properly
disclose their climate risk.
She will make polluters pay for emitting greenhouse gases into our atmosphere.
- A climate
pollution fee can play an important role as one of several interrelated
policies to reduce emissions and hold polluters accountable. As Governor
Inslee noted, a price on pollution is not a silver bullet, but by
placing a progressively increasing fee as far upstream as possible, we
can drive down pollution while raising government revenues that can be
used to address the harms of greenhouse gas emissions. However, history
shows us that reliance on market mechanisms alone can often leave
communities behind. That’s why Kamala will involve frontline communities
in the fee development process, and would ensure that the fee revenues
are invested back into those communities to improve environmental
conditions and local economic development.
PILLAR 3
BUILDING A CLEAN ECONOMY THAT WORKS FOR THE PEOPLE
Addressing the climate crisis isn’t
just a fight against something; it’s a fight for something. While the
climate threat is great, we don’t have to choose between a clean
environment and a thriving economy that works for everyone. The work of
building a clean economy will create millions of family-sustaining jobs
and lift up all communities.
From investing in clean energy and
electrifying transportation, to climate-smart agriculture and resilient
infrastructure, tackling the climate crisis and transitioning to a clean
economy will require us to do a lot of things at once. Leaving no one
behind will mean ensuring that communities have access to clean energy
solutions like community solar, public transit, green spaces, and the
millions of family-sustaining jobs those industries will create. It
won’t be easy and success will take time, effort, accountability, and
cooperation.
That’s why Kamala will implement a
vision for climate action on day one of her presidency that inspires all
Americans to help solve the climate crisis and build a clean economy
that works for working people.
HERE’S HOW WE’LL DO IT
We will achieve a clean economy no later than 2045.
- To build a
clean, carbon-neutral economy by 2045, we will need to track our
progress and keep ourselves accountable. We can do this using
progressive year-on-year benchmarks that target individual sectors,
including energy, transportation, infrastructure, industry, and
agriculture that meet appropriate goals for reducing emissions. And we
will achieve these goals by investing $10 trillion of public and private
spending over the next 10 years, creating millions of new, high-quality
jobs.
- In order to
make rapid progress, we must focus our efforts on immediately
implementing well-understood and efficient policies to reduce our
greenhouse gas emissions in sectors like electricity and ground
transportation, while simultaneously working on solutions to sectors
such as aviation, shipping, and the creation of products like cement,
steel, and plastics.
- To achieve
success at the federal level, we must build upon the work and progress
made by cities and states across the country. From setting ambitious
renewable portfolio standards to uniting with cities across the world to
commit to climate action, the bold plans to combat the climate crisis
that cities and states have put forward show us what is possible. We
should also partner with and encourage the significant number of
companies pursuing ambitious sustainability efforts while empowering
workers. That’s why Kamala will support the innovative and bold
strategies states, cities, and businesses enact to ensure that as we
address the climate crisis, we are building a future for everyone.
We will meet 100 percent of our electricity demand with carbon-neutral power by 2030.
- Using a
progressively more stringent Clean Electricity Standard that
acknowledges states are all starting from different points in terms of
the carbon intensity of their electricity supply and the unique
challenges facing rural America, we can rapidly get to 100 percent
carbon-neutral electricity by 2030. This will require extending and
expanding renewable and clean energy tax credits, including for energy
storage and other supportive infrastructure. We will also leverage
existing federal programs that support the financing of clean and
renewable energy projects. As we implement this strategy, we must ensure
that our policies aid underserved and vulnerable impacted
communities.
- Accelerating
the deployment of clean energy to rural areas will require building off
the existing efforts of rural electric cooperatives and leveraging the
Rural Utilities Service at USDA to take over unprofitable dirty energy
assets, speeding up their retirement and enabling clean and renewable
technologies to replace them, quickly decarbonizing power generation for
rural communities while keeping energy costs low. Other rural programs
at USDA, including the Rural Housing and Rural Business Service will
also be expanded to help rural communities invest in renewable energy
and energy-efficiency.
- Building an
electrical grid for the 21st century will require comprehensive
cooperation between federal, tribal, state, and local governments. This
includes transmission infrastructure that will both connect our
communities with renewable energy sources and support the distributed
energy resources that are critical to achieving our clean energy goals.
Spurring the transmission infrastructure required to achieve our goals
will require new incentives like expanding the Investment Tax Credit to
transmission infrastructure to ensure that transmission is not holding
back penetration of renewables.
- We also know
that grid insecurity continues to pose a national security risk. Cyber
security threats and climate-exacerbated natural disasters both expose
the vulnerability of our electric grid. That is why Kamala will direct
the Department of Energy to focus on security and reliability efforts
and will direct the Secretaries of Energy and Defense to conduct a
comprehensive assessment of grid vulnerabilities by the end of the first
year of her Administration.
- Energy
storage is a critical part of solving the climate crisis, which is why
Kamala will support robust funding for grid-scale and distributed energy
storage technology through the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy
Efficiency & Reliability and Office of Electricity. Rural
communities—where access to broadband is exacerbating broader challenges
to economic development and incorporating clean energy
technologies—will receive special focus and will require federal
agencies partnering with rural electric cooperatives. And the federal
government will invest in additional R&D to drive down costs, while
developing tools and analysis for utilities and all levels of government
to implement these technologies.
- To help
communities fund clean energy projects, Kamala will mobilize private
investment through mechanisms like a green bank as outlined in Senator
Markey’s National Climate Bank Act. These types of finance strategies
can reduce emissions and build climate resilience in communities across
the nation by accelerating deployment and adoption of clean energy
technologies like community solar, especially for low-income and middle
class communities.
We will lead the global
electrification of the transportation sector and make it affordable for
everyone to be part of the solution.
- Building
upon Kamala and the U.S. government completing a successful $14.7
billion settlement with Volkswagen from their emissions cheating
scandal—which now supports the electrification of the transportation
sector—and an accelerated model of Senator Merkley’s Zero-Emission
Vehicles Act, we will ensure that 50 percent of all new passenger
vehicles sold are zero-emission by 2030, and 100 percent are
zero-emission by 2035. This will require a new and improved “cash for
clunkers” program with incentives for cars to be replaced with
zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) manufactured in America, and extra,
targeted assistance for low and middle-income families. This will
establish American auto innovation and manufacturing as the best in the
world for zero-emission vehicles.
- To address
transportation emissions immediately, Kamala will reinstate federal
clean car rules, including reinstating and increasing vehicle fuel
economy standards in partnership with California and other states and
countries. She will institute a national Low-Carbon Fuel Standard to
ramp down emissions from transportation fuels as ZEV adoption ramps up.
To accelerate the adoption of ZEVs, Kamala will also require that all
new vehicle purchases for corporate fleets, transportation networks, and
heavy duty vehicles be ZEVs by 2030.
- By
progressively expanding the electric vehicle tax credit and shifting it
to a point of sale rebate, Kamala will ensure that low and middle income
families are able to benefit from the transition to a zero-emission
fleet. This will also require major investment in public charging
infrastructure, including working with gas stations to utilize existing
infrastructure where appropriate and building a network of charging
stations across the nation.
- We must also
incentivize people to reduce car usage and use public transit. This
starts by funding robust public transportation networks to bring
communities together and focusing our transportation infrastructure
investments toward projects that reduce vehicle miles traveled and
address gaps in first mile, last mile service. By requiring that all new
buses be zero-emission by 2030 and investing in local and regional
transportation projects, we can eliminate emissions while connecting
communities. This includes providing assistance to school districts to
electrify their fleets, as proposed in the Clean School Bus Act,
legislation that Kamala introduced earlier this year. The bill targets
federal investment in low-income communities that will also provide
significant health benefits to young children who will no longer be
exposed to harmful vehicle pollution.
- As we
electrify the rest of the transportation sector, we must invest in
R&D to fuel and build the future of shipping, aviation, and rail,
including high-speed rail. To ensure progress on decreasing emissions
for these sectors, Kamala will direct her Administration to develop
specific emissions reduction goals for each industry within two years.
We will build climate-smart infrastructure to reduce emissions and keep our communities safe and healthy.
- Our
buildings must be part of the climate solution. That is why Kamala will
require that new buildings are carbon-neutral by 2030. To help cities
and states meet this goal, she will direct her Administration to develop
a Clean Building Standard that is updated every three years,
incorporating new technology and best practices into a guide for
reducing emissions and withstanding climate hazards. This will also
include enabling grid flexibility so that we can take full advantage of
technologies in the home that can help load level the grid, like smart
thermostats and ZEVs.
- By
retrofitting existing buildings and focusing on energy efficiency and
weatherization programs, particularly for low-income and underserved
communities, we can address emissions from existing infrastructure and
reduce energy bills across the nation. This will also require addressing
the nation’s affordable housing crisis, leveraging our investment in
active transportation plans and climate-smart infrastructure to increase
urban density in a way that provides everyone the opportunity to live,
work, and play in their own community.
- We must make
sure we are building the infrastructure for the next generation,
including by updating crumbling schools with clean energy solutions. By
reviving the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant and and
supporting legislation like Senator Cortez Masto’s Renew America’s
Schools Act, we will help communities holistically address emissions
from infrastructure, increase resiliency, and decrease energy bills and
health care costs. Kamala would also use her Water Justice Act, which
creates a Water Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program, to help
communities invest in water efficiency as a way to further reduce
emissions and energy costs.
- The
wildfires, hurricanes, and floods we have experienced over the last few
years, including those in California, Texas, and Iowa, have demonstrated
how critical it is that our infrastructure withstand the challenges of
climate change. Hardening critical infrastructure, incentivizing
decentralized energy resources, and mandating that all federally funded
infrastructure projects integrate climate hazards in project design will
improve community resilience, helping families get back on their feet
faster while reducing overall costs.
- Greening our
communities by building with natural infrastructure can provide a
wealth of benefits. Natural infrastructure can combat sea level rise and
help achieve energy savings by combatting the urban heat effect and
reducing air conditioning needs. Using natural elements can also help
collect stormwater runoff, improve groundwater recharge, mitigate
erosion, and protect critical infrastructure by buffering the impact of
storms and flooding. By passing Kamala’s Living Shorelines Act
and implementing strategies like green roofs, green streets, riparian
buffers, and planting trees, we can clean our air and water, improve
public health, and increase the resilience of our communities.
We will empower our farming and ranching communities to be part of the climate fight.
- Our farming
and ranching families are on the frontlines of the climate crisis, and
they will play a critical role in ensuring that we have a sustainable
food supply for generations to come. American farmers and ranchers can
fight climate change better than farmers and ranchers from anywhere else
in the world. Kamala will partner with them to develop the regenerative
agricultural systems the world needs to provide food, fiber, fuel, and
environmental service for 10 billion people.
- American
farmers and ranchers need smart public policy that rewards both good
conservation and efficient production. Supporting farmers in addressing
conservation and environmental concerns while providing assistance for
them to meet agricultural production goals can simultaneously promote
community resilience and healthy families. America’s farmers and
ranchers are key partners and can help lead the fight against climate
change, for example, by expanding carbon farming efforts, removing
carbon from the atmosphere and storing it back in the soil.
- In Kamala’s
Administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will support
every farm in America to fully implement science-based agricultural
conservation practices by 2040, establishing our agricultural sector as a
global leader in climate-smart agriculture. Different regions,
different crops, and different animals will require unique strategies to
reduce emissions and pollution while increasing value, resilience, and
carbon sequestration. Farmers are already employing these practices on
cropland across the country. That’s why Kamala’s Administration will
build on the work already being done by the USDA to provide assistance
and incentives for farmers to develop and integrate climate- and
environmentally-smart practices that will result in healthier soils,
crops, and animals such as conservation tillage, using cover crops to
keep roots in the ground all year long, using livestock for
environmental services like managed grazing, adding crops into
rotations, and partnering with renewable energy.
- American
farmers and ranchers can develop the agricultural innovations that can
help solve the climate crisis. They need great partners in ARPA-E, the
USDA, and our Land Grant institutions. Kamala will fight to undo the
attacks on these important agricultural scientists. She will propose
budgets to provide farmers with the technical assistance and resources
they need to lead the world in the agricultural revolution that will
reduce emissions, capture carbon, and continue to produce enough for a
growing global population.
- As we reduce
emissions from agriculture, we must also address the food Americans
waste every day and the broader goal of zero waste. Cities, states, and
innovative companies across the nation are already charting a path
toward zero waste. For our food, this means strategies to increase food
utilization, increase commercial composting, reduce packaging, and to
collect food waste for use as local biofuels. For other products, it
means shifting from plastic to recyclable and degradable packing
materials like cardboard and paper. It also means investing in community
recycling programs that create local jobs. If we reduced the amount of
waste we send to landfills by 75%, we could create over a million jobs
in recycling and composting. The federal government can support these
initiatives by leading by example – just like it will do for the broader
transition to a clean economy.
We will create family-sustaining jobs to fuel our clean economy.
- Building a
clean economy will require the work of millions of our nation’s
hardworking builders, steelworkers, electricians, pipefitters,
carpenters, and communications workers. As we transition to a clean
economy, we must ensure that the jobs we create are good-paying,
family-sustaining jobs that protect the right to organize. That’s why
Kamala will support policies – like Senator Merkley’s Good Jobs for 21st
Century Energy Act – that drive development of clean energy
infrastructure and technology across the country, all while establishing
and maintaining high-road labor standards. Protecting our workers and
ensuring they have the right to join a union and collectively bargain
for safe, good-paying, family-sustaining jobs is key to growing our
economy and advancing U.S. competitiveness across the globe.
- We will
leave no one behind in the transition to a clean economy. Kamala will
protect and empower communities that have worked in the fossil fuel
industry for generations by ensuring they are at the decision-making
table and receive the benefits they have worked for and deserve, like
pensions, health care, and job transition assistance, including bridge
wages. We must also provide a path for workers near the end of their
career by providing retirement security. That is why Kamala will work
with organizations like the BlueGreen Alliance to effectuate
collaborative strategies that partner the labor and environmental
communities like the Alliance’s Solidarity for Climate Action.
- As we create
millions of jobs to fuel the clean economy, we must also make a serious
investment in our workers and support them as they build on their
existing expertise and acquire new skills. That’s why Kamala will use
her 21st Century SKILLS Act,
which provides up to $8,000 for workers who are unemployed, dislocated,
or underemployed to use for skills training and other educational
opportunities, including apprenticeship programs through unions, to
secure good-paying jobs linked to local employment demand. This will
also cover other costs associated with training, such as childcare and
transportation, to ensure families have the full support they need to
access high-quality training that leads to high-quality jobs.
- Every year,
federal funds are used to purchase billions of dollars worth of goods
and services. Buy America provisions have supported American jobs and
put federal dollars back into local economies. As we combat the climate
crisis, we can pair Buy America with Buy Clean, ensuring that the
procurement process for infrastructure and goods is supporting our
efforts to reduce emissions and boost clean manufacturing in America.
And as we invest in our nation’s infrastructure, policies like Senator
Gillibrand’s Build Local Hire Local Act will ensure that local
communities benefit first from federal investment in infrastructure
projects.
We will make the United States the
center of global research and innovation for a clean economy by building
a diverse workforce with expertise in science, technology, engineering,
and mathematics (STEM).
- Leading the
world in the technologies and innovations that will help us achieve a
clean economy starts with fully funding our federal science and
research agencies, national labs, and partnerships. Whether it is
land-use change research at USGS, infectious disease research at the
CDC, or energy efficiency research at the National Labs, funding our
federal science apparatus is critical to our success in a changing
climate.
- To leverage
the work done by federal scientists, Kamala will work to close the
technology commercialization gap through initiatives like Senator
Heinrich’s Energy Technology Maturation Program Act, that would
facilitate commercialization of federal laboratory-developed energy
technologies, boosting regional, technology-driven economies. She will
also encourage partnerships between public colleges and universities to
enhance training programs for clean energy jobs and clean research
efforts such as those at the University of Nevada – Reno’s Innevation Center.
- Kamala knows
that building a diverse STEM workforce is critical to our success in
tackling the challenges ahead. That is why she would work with Congress
to pass STEM diversity legislation, including her Combatting Sexual Harassment in STEM Act and 21st Century STEM for Girls and Underrepresented Minorities Act. Additionally, Kamala has proposed a $60 billion plan to boost STEM at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and other minority serving institutions.
- But there is
no successful future STEM workforce without skilled and passionate
teachers fostering the potential of the next generation. That is why
Kamala has made increasing pay for our teachers
a priority and why we must provide educators the resources to increase
climate literacy through initiatives like Senator Markey’s Climate
Change Education Act and programs like NOAA Sea Grant.
PILLAR 4
PROTECTING OUR NATURAL RESOURCES
America has some of the most precious
natural resources and public lands in the world. But their fate is under
threat from bad actors and harmful policies. In many cases, our public
resources have been exploited for huge gains to private corporations,
often at the expense of the rights of all Americans to clean air, clean
water, and a safe and healthy environment.
The majority of our public lands are
not in pristine National Parks, Wilderness areas, or other protected
spaces across the nation. Instead, most are open for resource extraction
and other uses, often leased to destructive industries for pennies on
the dollar. As a result, fossil fuel production on public lands
currently accounts for roughly 24 percent
of national carbon emissions. To combat the climate crisis, we must
phase out fossil fuel development and extraction on these landscapes
immediately and use our public places to our collective benefit.
That’s why Kamala’s Administration
will put an end to the fossil fuel exploitation of our public lands and
shift to renewable energy development and conservation, while ensuring
that all Americans have the ability to enjoy our natural wonders.
HERE’S HOW SHE’LL DO IT
She will phase out all fossil fuel
development on public lands and implement conservation and renewable
energy strategies to make our public lands net carbon sinks by 2030.
- After
immediately halting all new fossil fuel leases on federal lands and
waters, Kamala will use existing authorities and work with Congress to
phase out existing leases and implement emissions mitigation strategies
such as capping methane flaring and linking production royalties to the
social cost of carbon so that oil and gas companies are paying for the
climate damages they are causing. And Kamala will ensure a just
transition so that communities that are dependent on the revenues and
jobs from fossil fuel development on public lands have opportunities in
the new clean economy.
- As we end
the extraction of dirty energy, Kamala will increase wind – both onshore
and offshore – and solar production on public lands where appropriate,
creating a Public Land Renewable Energy Zone Strategy within her first
year in office to responsibly expand renewable energy capacity on public
lands while protecting natural habitats and endangered species. This
strategy will bring together federal agencies, tribes, renewable energy
developers, environmental groups, and local stakeholders to ensure that
we have a successful plan for meeting our renewable energy goals while
protecting the environment and respecting local and Indigenous needs.
- Today, our
public lands contribute far more carbon emissions than they store
through natural carbon sequestration. We must turn that around, putting
forward a bold goal and strategy to make our public lands absorb more
carbon than they emit, as net carbon sinks by 2030. In addition to
ramping up renewable energy development and ending fossil fuel
extraction on public lands, meeting this goal will require protecting,
restoring, and stewarding our natural systems to capture and store
carbon. For example, the Tongass National Forest in Alaska already
captures more carbon than any national forest in the country. Yet
instead of protecting this natural resource, the Trump administration is
attempting to strip it of protections, opening up millions of acres to
destructive activities like commercial logging and mining. In contrast,
Kamala has already introduced three bills to expand protections on more than 1 million acres of public land in California alone.
She will protect 30 percent of all of our nation’s land and ocean by 2030.
- To ensure
that we leverage nature to help us face the climate crisis, we must make
protecting our remaining natural ecosystems and restoring degraded
environments a priority. That is why the U.S. must join the global
movement to protect 30 percent of our land and ocean by 2030. From the
wetlands of Louisiana to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to Nevada’s
Red Rock Canyon, there are ecosystems across our country that need
protection.
- Meeting this
goal will require diversifying the marine and land ecosystems that we
protect and targeting biodiversity hotspots and critical wildlife
corridors. This starts by using existing authorities under the
Antiquities Act to protect critical landscapes like restoring
protections to Bears Ears National Monument and Grand
Staircase-Escalante National Monument and leveraging and fully funding
popular programs like the Land and Water Conservation Fund. And working
with Congress, Kamala will support legislation that protects the health
and function of our ecosystems like Senator Udall’s Wildlife Corridors
Conservation Act and Senator Hirono’s Botanical Sciences Act.
- Protecting
our public lands also means ensuring that we are telling the diverse
stories and histories of all who have experienced our natural wonders.
For example, the César E. Chávez National Monument in California was
established in 2012 and tells the story of the leaders of the farm
workers movement like César Chávez, Dolores Huerta, and Larry Itliong
while allowing visitors to experience the beauty of the Tehachapi
Mountains. Kamala will work with underrepresented communities, including
tribes, communities of color, the LGBTQ community, and others to
identify, protect, and appropriately honor sacred sites and places of
historic and cultural significance to ensure that our national parks and
monuments honor and tell the stories of all Americans.
- Climate
change will increase the challenges that come with restoring and
conserving ecosystems. To ensure a thriving ecosystem, we must focus
efforts on preserving biodiversity, fighting invasive species, and
protect our most fragile and vulnerable environments. Lands that contain
transition zones between habitat types may experience faster changes
than others. And impacts like sea level rise will exacerbate the
conflict between coastal hardening and a functioning coastal ecosystem.
To address these challenges, Kamala will require the implementation of climate-smart
conservation and restoration practices, incorporating flexibility and
embracing adaptive management where appropriate in concert with
preservation.
- By 2050, wildfires are projected to burn twice as much
land across the American West each year. A healthy forest and ecosystem
is the best defense against wildfires and fostering healthy forests
starts with science-based forest management. That’s why Kamala will
provide the U.S. Forest Service and the communities in the
wildland-urban interface the requisite resources to address this threat.
She will also partner the federal government with states and
communities to provide funding to implement community wildfire
protection plans. This includes defensible space projects,
infrastructure hardening, evacuation planning, and education campaigns.
She will ensure that access to nature does not depend on your income or zip code.
- Our public
lands belong to all Americans and it is time we make that a reality.
Outdoor recreation also puts billions of dollars into our economy and
provides millions of jobs. That’s why Kamala will create a new Office of
Outdoor Recreation to coordinate outdoor opportunities across federal,
state, and local governments. She will also make entry to all of our
public lands free, including our National Parks.
- To begin to
address the maintenance backlog at our National Parks, Kamala will work
with Congress to pass the bipartisan Restore Our Parks Act. The new
Office of Outdoor Recreation will work to boost visitation to less
well-known public spaces, increase diversity in outdoor recreation, and
ensure that access to our public spaces is for all by implementing
strategies like transit to trails.
- Nearly 100 million Americans don’t have access to a park within a 10-minute walk.
Outdoor parks provide local communities more than just a place to
recreate – they foster the social, environmental, and economic health
that help communities thrive. They also provide people with leisure that
does not have a large carbon footprint. To address this recreation
deficit, we must increase funding for outdoor recreation and green
spaces in cities through bills like Kamala’s Outdoors for All Act,
providing a gathering place for communities and helping combat local
air pollution, improving water quality, and reducing the urban heat
effect.
PILLAR 5
ASSERTING INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP
The United States is the single
largest carbon polluter in history and we have benefited the most from
the growth that came with burning fossil fuels. We must speak this truth
and accept the responsibility we have to lead the global fight for a
healthier environment and sustainable future through clean energy
solutions. Climate action is a moral imperative and an enormous economic
opportunity. Future generations will judge us on whether or not we lead
this global fight.
There is no corner of our planet that
will escape the impacts of climate change. Across the country and around
the world, we see proof that the climate crisis is already upon us:
more frequent wildfires, droughts, heat waves, water shortages, melting
glaciers and rising seas, 500 year storms that now occur with much
greater frequency, threats to farmers and our food supply, lives and
livelihoods threatened or lost. Additionally, climate change is
exacerbating conflict and forced migration through resource scarcity,
which poses threats to populations around the world. By mid-century, hundreds of millions of climate refugees may be forced to migrate because of worsening environmental conditions due to climate change.
Climate change is the greatest global threat facing the international community and those least at fault will experience the detrimental impacts of climate change first and hardest.
As the biggest carbon polluter in history, the United States has a
moral obligation and a responsibility to lead the global fight against
climate change. And as the largest economy in the world, we have an
economic imperative to address this crisis. The United States must
return to the negotiating table with new commitments to carbon
neutrality before mid-century and aggressive near-term targets that set a
high bar for others – particularly other major emitters including China
and India. We must also hold others accountable to their commitments to
reduce emissions and take action when they falter.
When the United States leads on
climate change, we can serve not only to make the world a better
place–we also protect our national interests and create opportunities
for American ingenuity, innovation, and prosperity.
That’s why Kamala will restore
America’s global climate leadership and treat the climate crisis as a
top national security priority.
HERE’S HOW SHE’LL DO IT
She will immediately rejoin the Paris
Agreement and chart a path forward, demonstrating to the international
community that the U.S. is deeply committed to global climate action.
- We must
boldly and aggressively fix the damage done by the Trump administration.
That is why Kamala will put in place the policies to achieve a 50
percent emissions reduction by 2030. Then, in advance of the first
Conference of Parties following her election and in consultation with
domestic stakeholders and key international partners, Kamala will set an
ambitious updated target and set forth a bold mid-century strategy of
reaching a carbon-neutral economy by 2045.
- As she
establishes the nation’s goals on climate, Kamala will reengage
bilaterally and multilaterally with other major emitters, particularly
China and India, to secure their commitments to action commensurate with
U.S. ambition and in line with what is required to address the climate
crisis and limit warming below 1.5 C. Kamala will also ramp up
negotiations among the world’s largest emitters to end harmful fossil
fuel subsidies and ensure the U.S. leads the world in providing
meaningful financial and technological climate-related assistance to
nations that need it the most.
- She will
honor the U.S. pledge to contribute our fair share to the $100 billion
committed in Paris to support countries’ transition to a carbon-free
future. And she will then negotiate a significantly greater global
commitment to funding the transition, guided by the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change estimate that $1.6 – 3.8 trillion in global
energy system investment is required to avoid the most harmful effects
of climate change. As part of this effort, Kamala will honor and double
U.S. climate finance commitments to the Green Climate Fund and other
climate-focused finance mechanisms, seeking to maximize the leverage of
each dollar we spend by working with other donor countries,
philanthropy, and the private sector.
- As Kamala
knows from her experience as California’s Attorney General, transparency
is critical to ensure that we can track progress toward results and to
be able to hold those who aren’t doing their part accountable. That’s
why Kamala will work with international partners to improve global
greenhouse gas data collection, including through deployment and use of
satellite monitoring systems to visualize global emissions and the
impacts of land use change and forest loss on the climate crisis. She
will also use tools of diplomacy to hold nations accountable when they
do not meet their commitments to fight the climate crisis.
She will make the climate crisis a top national security priority.
- International
cooperation will be critical to tackle the climate crisis. That is why
Kamala will establish a climate envoy in every major embassy around the
world and prioritize U.S. engagement and partnerships on commitments to
climate pollution reductions leveraging the expertise of U.S.
scientists, innovators, workers, and communities.
- As the U.S.
leads the global effort to reduce emissions, the Department of Defense,
with its global footprint, must be part of the solution. The very first
sentence of the Department’s mandated report
on climate change acknowledges that “[t]he effects of a changing
climate are a national security issue with potential impacts to
Department of Defense missions, operation plans, and installations.”
Climate change undermines our military’s ability to do its job. That is
why Kamala is committed to ensuring that the DoD is a leader in climate
resiliency, clean energy, and addressing climate destabilization. As
President, Kamala will appoint a new Defense Climate Advisor to
coordinate and oversee projects and strategies across the DoD to ensure
that our military is prepared for the new challenges climate change will
present. She will also ensure that DoD is a leader in reducing
emissions and adopting technologies that neutralize its carbon footprint
while enabling it to be more nimble and resilient.
- Every region
on Earth will feel the impact of climate change in the years ahead. As
extreme weather events become more frequent and more intense, natural
resources become more scarce, and major economic sectors evolve to
accommodate a changing climate, tensions will rise and geopolitical
conflicts will become even more enflamed. Kamala will ensure her
National Security Council not only prioritizes climate action in
international engagement, but also factors in the impacts of climate
change into near- and long-term national security planning.
- It is far
past time for the U.S. to ratify key international environmental
agreements like the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, which
would reduce the use of potent greenhouse gases in air conditioning and
refrigeration processes, and the Convention on Biological Diversity,
aimed at promoting sustainable development by recognizing the values and
services that biological diversity worldwide provides. She will also
work with other countries to identify and pursue new global agreements
where needed — such as solving the problem of plastic in our oceans.
- The health
of our forests, farms, natural lands and oceans present critical
solutions for our collective effort to combat the climate crisis. The
health of America’s forests and farms will be a priority of Kamala’s
administration, so that the United States can lead other nations by
example. Dedicated diplomatic efforts will be directed towards a global
plan to save the world’s forests, including the Amazon rainforest – our
planet’s lungs and home to incredible biodiversity – from continued
destruction. As the U.S. works to achieve the goal of protecting 30
percent of its land and ocean by 2030, Kamala will work with
international partners to realize that goal at the global scale. And,
Kamala will make sure that executive agencies leverage their numerous
international relationships to increase science, environmental, and
climate cooperation.
She will prioritize clean energy in international trade and development to facilitate the transition away from fossil fuels.
- We must
begin intentionally and deliberately transitioning away from fossil
fuels, shifting from being an exporter of fossil fuels to an exporter of
clean energy technology. To encourage the international adoption of
clean energy, Kamala’s Administration will work to end support for
international oil and gas projects, including directing the U.S.
Export-Import Bank and OPIC to end their investments in projects that
continue to develop, extract, and utilize fossil fuel resources. She
will use the influence of the United States to end similar investments
at the World Bank and other multilateral development institutions in
which the U.S. participates. She will work bilaterally and
multilaterally with other world leaders to ensure that fossil fuel
infrastructure projects like the Keystone XL pipeline do not move
forward.
- As a follow
up to the G7 meeting being hosted by the Trump Administration in 2020,
and the G20 meeting to be hosted by Saudi Arabia in that same year,
Kamala will propose and convene a meeting of major emitters in early
2021, focusing on climate change and the global economy. The meeting
will focus on renewed commitments to fossil-fuel subsidy phase out and
the first-ever global negotiation of the cooperative managed decline of
fossil fuel production.
- Kamala will
also support the significant and growing clean-tech industry in the
United States, focusing trade agreements and support from the
Export-Import Bank, IDFC and other institutions on bolstering trade and
investment in clean-tech solutions. She will also work with the U.S.
investment community to foster public-private initiatives to leverage
trillions of dollars into clean energy investments and projects that use
American technologies and innovations around the world.
- Aviation and
shipping represent areas of significant emissions growth worldwide and
in the United States. To address emissions in these sectors, Kamala will
commit the U.S. to implement the system established by the
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to decarbonize
aviation, called CORSIA, and will work with the American airline
industry to reduce airline emissions consistent with the long-term goal
of carbon neutrality. She will similarly pursue domestic action and
international cooperation through the International Maritime
Organization (IMO) to address maritime emissions.
She will work with our allies to stem and address climate migration and welcome climate refugees.
- As the
climate crisis evolves, we know that communities across the world will
face unprecedented challenges. Island and coastal nations will find
themselves underwater, deserts will expand, and water will become
scarcer. That is why the U.S. must engage with its allies to prepare for
future climate-induced migration and work with our allies to formulate a
plan to welcome future climate refugees. Kamala will direct executive
agencies, such as USAID, to cooperate with other countries and
international partners to support climate resiliency, improve disaster
preparedness, and restore the health of environmental systems in order
to address climate migration. She will also work to ensure that climate
refugees are given appropriate protections under international law.
The entire world is looking for
climate solutions. Americans can and must lead. Kamala will empower
every corner of the country and people across America to lead the world
in solutions to the climate crisis.
