President Obama: Cut That Climate Check Before You Head Out!
- by: Aaron V.
- recipient: President Barack Obama
President-elect Donald Trump does not believe in climate change.
His announced cabinet secretaries do not believe in or support action on climate change. His plan for his first 100 days in office includes massive rollbacks to climate action.
In fact, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, his announced pick for EPA administrator, is currently suing the EPA over the landmark Clean Power Plan, President Obama's historic effort to curb global warming pollution from coal-fired power plants. The Clean Power Plan is also a significant piece of U.S. commitments to meet global climate agreements.
Between Pruitt, Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson (Secretary of State), Texas Governor Rick Perry (Secretary of Energy) and Rep. Ryan Zinke (Secretary of Interior) the President-elect is appointing his own Axis of Climate Evil. Under Trump's announced cabinet, dirty energy is king and action on climate will come grinding to a halt.
BUT WAIT - Before President Obama leaves office he can fulfill a major U.S. commitment to the international community. As part of the Paris Climate Agreement, the U.S. agreed to pay $3 billion dollars to help poorer countries respond to climate disasters. Donald Trump intends to back out of the remaining $2.5 billion we owe the Green Climate Fund.
These resources will have a real impact on billions of people around the globe. Let's make sure that the U.S. meets its global climate justice commitments!
Urge President Obama to write the check before he leaves office.
We are partnering with Corporate Accountability International and other groups on this campaign.
As president, your leadership on climate change has inspired hope for a safer future for our planet. Donald Trump’s statements on climate change indicate that he has every intention of reversing all you have worked hard to achieve, threatening your climate legacy. His promise to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement would be disastrous for global climate policy, and his presumed appointee to head the Environmental Protection Agency will sound a death knell for sane environmental policy at home.
The world cannot afford Donald Trump’s steps backward on climate. Right now, people around the world are mobilizing to counter Trump’s anticipated actions. You can help us protect your climate legacy by fulfilling your pledge to contribute $3 billion toward the international Green Climate Fund, funding climate justice measures all over the Global South.
Money is key to ensuring climate justice: The U.S. and other wealthy countries have pledged billions of dollars to support Global South countries’ progress on climate. This money will make a tangible difference in the lives of people who are facing the effects of climate change right now. Globally, just as in the U.S., communities of color and low-income communities are the ones bearing the brunt of climate change’s effects, and have done the least to create the problem. Fulfilling the United States’ commitment to the Green Climate Fund will help advance climate justice globally. It will fund ways for small island nations to protect themselves against the rising oceans and catastrophic storms, finance renewable energy infrastructure to catalyze sustainable development, and more. And it’s one huge step forward on climate change that Donald Trump cannot undo.
What’s more, without the money pledged to the Green Climate Fund, the historic Paris Agreement is in danger of falling apart. Fulfilling your pledge will have a huge impact in propelling forward climate progress internationally -- whether or not Trump pulls out of climate talks -- and spur other countries around the world to fulfill their pledges.
I urge you to stand up for climate justice and cement your legacy by completing the remaining $2.5 billion of our $3 billion contribution to the Green Climate Fund.
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