28 January 2021 17:53 GMT Updated 1 February 2021 17:55 GMT
US President Joe Biden on Wednesday elevated climate change to an “essential element” of American foreign policy and national security, announcing three executive orders that would include putting a halt to new oil and gas drilling on public lands, federal agencies eliminating fossil fuel subsidies, and raising targets for the country’s fledgling offshore wind sector.
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“We’ve already waited too long to deal with this climate crisis. We can t wait any longer. We see it with our own eyes, we feel it, we know it in our bones and its time to act,” said Biden, who took office a week ago pledging to be the most aggressive president on climate action. “We know what to do. We just got to do it.”