US President Joe Biden has issued a series of executive orders addressing climate change as the main internal and external policy of the government.
President Biden said at a press conference yesterday (27th) that climate change is a “existing threat” and that this executive order will make the issue of climate change “a key element of US foreign policy and national security”.
“Today is’climate day’ at the White House, but it also means’job day’,” he said. “By building a modern and resilient climate infrastructure and a clean energy future, it will create millions of good jobs.
The executive order signed on that day included the end of drilling new oil and natural gas on federal land and offshore, increasing renewable energy production, doubling offshore wind power development by 2030, and reducing subsidies related to fossil fuels. There is.
Along with this, it included the creation of a task force team composed of departments and minister-level personnel within the White House to coordinate policies at the government-wide level on climate change.
President Biden said he will promote the holding of the Climate Summit on April 22,’Earth Day’.
The White House explained that the move will allow the United States to “achieve’carbon neutral’ in the electricity sector by 2035 and enter an irreversible path toward a carbon neutral economy by 2050.”
VOA news
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