Chairman engles joining us. Were here joined by the select committee on Climate Crisis and an esteemed panel of witnesses for this hearing leading to the next generation on the global Climate Crisis. I know a few of our witnesses have a hard stop at 11 30 in order to get to their next event advocating on these issues. Ill just ask that all members keep their questioning to five minutes or less so we can fit in as many members as possible. Without objection all the members may have five days to submit statements, questions, exrainious materials for the record, subject to length limitation in the rules and id just like to call on the chairman of the full committee to who has a few words to offer. Chairman engel. Good morning, everyone. I just wanted to invite everyone to come to the Foreign Affairs committee, and by the looks of it youre all here. I want to welcome everybody. Climate change is certainly something that is so important, and the aggravating thing about it is that there are
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Event. Hi, everyone. Im lavinia. Im 14 years old and Elizabeth Warren is my gammy. Gammy and i are very close, she comes to my diving practices and we have girls night sleepovers and we paint each others toe nails blue, of course. She works hard but makes time for our family. Shes always there for us no matter what. I want her to be the first female president of the United States. Because that is what girls do. Come on out, gammy. Hello los angeles wow, im glad to be here with all of you. That is why weve been in california, who are ready for big structural changes, los angeles . Now as you can see, its for me a family affair. You met lavinia, you met atticus, my other granddaughter octavia is here. My daughter amelia soninlaw, and my soninlaw, alex in the blue shirt. Its really good to be here with family. Very to say. Alex has been on the road with me. Alex has been my tech support since second grade. Its true. Its true. He runs his own business now. And is also trying a new one and
We have girls night sleepovers and we paint each others toe nails blue, of course. She works hard but makes time for our family. Shes always there for us no matter what. I want her to be the first female president of the United States. Because that is what girls do. Come on out, gammy. Hello los angeles wow, im glad to be here with all of you. That is why weve been in california, who are ready for big structural changes, los angeles . Now as you can see, its for me a family affair. You met lavinia, you met atticus, my other granddaughter octavia is here. My daughter amelia soninlaw, and my soninlaw, alex in the blue shirt. Its really good to be here with family. Very to say. Alex has been on the road with me. Alex has been my tech support since second grade. Its true. Its true. He runs his own business now. And is also trying a new one and support your mother when she runs for president of the United States. So glad youre all here tonight. I thought what wed do is ill tell you about my
Driving the german capital to consider and on point that all solution to. This is the w. Business im joined now on in berlin welcome thousands of delegates from around the world are in the german city of bonn racing to resolve outstanding issues in implementing the Paris Climate Accord nearly 200 countries signed the agreement back in 2015 committing to limit the centurys global average temperature increase so no road to no more than 2 degrees celsius above preindustrial levels will have more on the issues in just a moment but 1st heres a look at how countries compare in terms of c o 2 emissions what 28 percent of global emissions china is the biggest offender the United States at 16 per cent comes in at number 2 germany with just over 2 percent comes in 6th place. But its a very different story when you look at per capita emissions and that measure its qatar that comes out way on top the average person there emits over 30 tons of c o 2 each year thats twice as much as the average pers