how do you address those criticisms? you know what? democrat states and republican states are all in on building out clean. i was recently in north dakota. they are that governor, he is all about building out the clean energy economy even though they have a lot of fossil fuel investments because he sees it as growing the pie. texas is, like, number one in wind, number two in solar. they have built out the whole infrastructure and have put thousands and thousands of people to work. so that may be what politicians are saying, but who happening on the ground is that the private sector and government are partnering to make sure that people have the opportunity to get jobs in this sector. people need to understand this is a transition. we re not going to flip a switch and be off of fossil fuels tomorrow. what we want to do is grow the pie and build out this clean energy side so that the people who have been working in oil and gasser in mining for coal, we want them to see themselves as
chant outside of a bank to try to make their message heard. but she didn t speak to the crowd. she didn t get on a bull horn or anything like this. this is one of a small chain of protests held around the world trying to convince the global banking system to divest from fossil fuel investments and not to fund any further fossil fuel developments for the sake of the climate. the one in london focused specifically on standard charter bank and for its part, it says that it does have a climate change plan. it wants all of its, pledging all of its investments by 2050 will be net carbon neutral. and also says it won t have any clients that won t be 5% reliable on coal for energy. and at that event, that was still not nearly enough, kim. so the british, you know, they re hosting cop26, as we
chair of the energy senate committee announced thousands of dollars a year from fossil fuel investments. he wants a slower transition from fossil fuels, putting it this way. basically i m totally committed to innovation, we can do it in a practical, responsible way. this is hard going for president biden and we already know the present in the past, america emits 16 tons of co2 per person per year, that s more than double the per capita rate of europe or china. america is responsible for 20% of all historic emissions are now america s president has ambitions to do things differently. the us is aiming to be carbon neutral by 2050. that is marked by the redline, but america right now is the blue line, and again, it s track. unless more people and politicians are persuaded to do more about emissions, they will continue to be a significant gap between american targets
defeatjoe biden. that s a republican campaign ad but it s notjust republicans who want biden s plans changed. this is senatorjoe manchin. he s a democrat, is chair of the senate energy committee and earns thousands of dollars a year from fossil fuel investments. he wants a slower transition from fossil fuels. putting it this way. i m totally committed to innovation, not elimination, because i believe we can do it in a practical, responsible way. politically, this is hard going for president biden. and while congress decides america s contribution to ou climate in the future, we already know the present and the past. america emits 16 tonnes of co2 per person per year. that s more than than double the per capita rate of europe or china. america is responsible for 20% of all historic emissions. and now, america s president has ambitions to do things differently in the short and long term. just like the uk, the us is aiming to be carbon neutral by 2050. but once look at the red lin
way of winning friends and but as a way of winning friends and influencing governments, just before you host this most crucial of global climate summits, cutting aid is a disaster. instead the uk should be leading the world on climate action, with a radical new approach. to move trillions of dollars, yen, euros and pounds out of fossil fuels and into renewables. by properly holding to account the powerful fossil fuel firms and the powerful in the city of london. banning new oil, gas and coal companies from the london stock exchange, stopping the flow of money from your pension funds into the dirty industries of the past. as we host the global climate talks in glasgow, we should stop london hosting the world s fossil fuel